law: Indian Evidence Act, 1872 
  41. Relevancy of certain judgments in probate, etc.
  
  jurisdiction
  A final judgment,
  
  order or decree of a competent Court, in the exercise of probate, matrimonial,
  
  admiralty or insolvency jurisdiction, which confers upon or takes away from any
  
  person any legal character, or which declares any person to be entitled to any
  
  such character, or to be entitled to an specific thing, not as against any
  
  specified person but absolutely, is relevant when the existence of any such
  
  legal character, or the title of any such person to any such thing, is
  
  relevant.
  Such judgment, order
  
  pr decree is conclusive proof—
  that any legal character
  
  which it confers accrued at the time when such judgment, order or decree came
  
  into operation;
  That any legal
  
  character, to which it declares any such person to be entitled, accrued, to
  
  that person to be entitled, accrued, to that person at the time when such
  
  judgment, 28[order or decree ] declares it to have accrued to that
  
  person; that any legal character which it takes away from any person ceased at
  
  the time from which judgment, 28[ order or decree ] declared that it
  
  had ceased or should cease;
  And that anything to
  
  which it declares any person to be so entitled was the property of that person
  
  at the time from which such judgment, 28[order or decree] declares
  
  that it had been or should be his property.