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Richard Roe   /rˈɪtʃərd roʊ/   Listen
Richard Roe

noun
1.
An unknown or fictitious party to legal proceedings.





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"Richard Roe" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Gudruna for a woman, were standing names in the Formularies of the Icelandic code, answering to the "M or N" in our Liturgy, or to those famous fictions of English law, "John Doe and Richard Roe." (2) "Gossipry," that is, because they were gossips, "God's sib", relations ...
— Njal's Saga • Unknown Icelanders
... means of certain legal fictions similar to those of Westminster Hall, we are frequently enabled to take cognisance of cases lying beyond the sphere of our original jurisdiction. We need hardly say, therefore, that in the present instance M. Perier is merely a Richard Roe, who will not be mentioned in any subsequent stage of the proceedings, and whose name is used for the sole purpose of bringing Machiavelli ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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