Meaning & use
Res
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In law, a thing, matter, or status considered as the subject of a right or legal proceeding, as distinguished from a person.
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The court had to determine whether the res, in this case a disputed trust fund, was properly within its jurisdiction.
The doctrine of res judicata prevents the same res from being litigated twice between the same parties.
A note on using this word
Latin for 'thing.' Outside legal Latin phrases like res judicata and res ipsa loquitur, 'res' rarely stands alone in ordinary English.
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subject matter
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