Definition of Richard Roe

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

Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Generic synonyms: Party

Lexicographical Neighbors of Richard Roe

Richard II
Richard III
Richard J. Roberts
Richard John Roberts
Richard Jordan Gatling
Richard Kuhn
Richard Leakey
Richard Lovelace
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Neville
Richard Nixon
Richard Phillips Feynman
Richard Rodgers
Richard Roe (current term)
Richard Smalley
Richard Snary
Richard Starkey
Richard Strauss
Richard Trevithick
Richard Upjohn
Richard Wagner
Richard Wright
Richard of York gave battle in vain
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Richard the Lionheart
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Richards

Literary usage of Richard Roe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"A sweeter gift I'll then impart, And thou shall have a maiden's heart. If thou wilt give thy heart to me. JOHN DOE AND Richard Roe. Air—" Rob Roy M'Gregor, ..."

2. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"... and upon the lands ; taken as a fiction to avoid the constitution, as a John Doe and Richard Roe ..."

3. The Pleader's Guide: A Didactic Poem, in Two Books, Containing the Conduct by John Anstey (1796)
"... Whom Law united, nor the Grave can fever, " All hail JOHN DOE, and RICHARD ROE for ever." END OF THE FIRST BOOK. ..."

4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Proceedings between the KING and THOMAS KENDALL and Richard Roe, in the King's-Bench, on an Habeas Corpus upon a Commitment for High Treason : 7 WILLIAM III ..."

5. A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents by John Wentworth, George Townesend, James Cornwall (1799)
"Richard Roe out of his faid lait-mentioned farm : And alfo for that the faid John James heretofore, to wit, on, &c. at, &c. had tit-miled unto the faid ..."

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