full faith and credit
full faith and credit. The recognition, acceptance, and enforcement of the laws, orders, and judgments of another jurisdiction; specif., the recognition by one state of another state’s legal decisions. [Cases: Judgment 815, 828.4; States 5(2). C.J.S. Judgments §§ 969–979, 998, 1002–1003, 1007, 1009, 1011, 1014.]