preclusion
C1CEFR level
62/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The barring of a party from relitigating a claim or issue already finally decided.
Issue preclusion prevented the defendant from reopening a question of causation settled in the earlier action.
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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