Subject to the provisions set forth in the Code of Civil Procedure, judgments and judicial decisions terminating the litigation as well as payment orders that have res judicata shall be binding with respect to the litigation settled thereby, and no evidence that would rebut such binding force shall be admissible. However, such judgments and judicial decisions terminating the litigation or payment orders shall not have such binding force, except in a dispute arising between the same litigants themselves without changing their capacities and where such dispute relates to the same right in terms of object and cause. The court shall, sua sponte, decide such binding force.
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