Reviewed case brief
State of Uttar Pradesh v. Nawab Hussain
AIR 1977 SC 1680
## Summary
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Year
- 1977
- Subjects
- Civil Procedure Code and Law of Limitation
- Reviewed
- 2026-06-29
Rule established
Constructive res judicata bars a subsequent suit on a ground that might and ought to have been raised in an earlier writ petition. A litigant cannot reserve grounds for successive rounds of litigation.
Facts
Issues
Held
Ratio decidendi
How to use it in an exam
Editorial source
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