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direct estoppel

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res judicata

litigation that requires and includes the barring of relitigation of settled matters under merger, bar, collateral estoppel, and direct estoppel : former adjudication compare bar estoppel by judgment at estoppel, merger b : a specific doctrine that precludes

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privity

-ties [Old French privité privacy, secret, from Medieval Latin privitat- privitas, from Latin privus private] 1 : the direct connection or relationship between parties to a contract or transaction (as a purchase) [ of contract] see also … in ] see also predecessor in interest NOTE: A claim may be barred by res judicata or collateral estoppel if the plaintiff's interests are identical, by relationship or subject matter, to those of a party to a

Judgment

proceeding. Before such an order can be a judgment the adverse effect on the party concerned must be direct and immediate rather than indirect or remote. For instance, where the Trial Judge in a suit under Order … EXECUTION; and as to registration of Judgments, Chit. Stat., tit. 'Judgment and Execution' and 'Land Charges'; and see ESTOPPEL; CONTRACTS OF RECORD; ELEC-TION; FOREIGN JUDGMENT. The word 'judgment' is also used to denote the reasons given by

agency

in fact employed by a principal see also express agency and implied agency in this entry agency by estoppel : an agency that is not created as an actual agency by a principal and an agent but … involvement is needed in a particular social activity or problem, it may write legislation creating an agency either directly or by authorizing the executive to set it up. Agencies exist at the federal, state, and local level.

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