issue estoppel
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The rule preventing a party from reopening a particular issue already determined between the same parties.
Issue estoppel barred the defendant from denying negligence, that very question having been resolved against him in the earlier trial.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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