55. Relevancy of certain judgments in probate,
etc. jurisdiction. A final judgment, order on 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
any 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 or decree is conclusive
proof‑‑
that any legal character which it confers
accrued at the crime 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 at the time when such
judgment, order or decree declares it to have accrued to that person;
that any legal character which it takes away
from any such person ceased at the time from which such judgment, order orl decree declared that it had creased 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; order or decree declares that it had been or should be his
property.