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2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 41 - Torts
Article 7 - Libel and Slander
Section 41-7-2 - [Judgment as res judicata.] (1955)
NM Stat § 41-7-2 (2013) What's This?
41-7-2. [Judgment as res judicata.] (1955)
A judgment in any jurisdiction for or against the plaintiff upon the substantive merits of any action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance as described in Section 1 [41-7-1 NMSA 1978] shall bar any other action for damages by the same plaintiff against the same defendant founded upon the same publication or exhibition or utterance.
History: 1953 Comp., § 40-27-31, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 50, § 2; 1978 Comp., § 30-34-2, recompiled as 1978 Comp., § 41-7-2.
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