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Richard Roe

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Noun

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an unknown or fictitious party to legal proceedings

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Richard Roe

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law
(formerly) the defendant in a fictitious action, Doe versus Roe, to test a point of law
See also Doe (sense 1)

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Richard Roe

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a name used in law courts, legal papers, etc. to refer to a person whose actual name is unknown, esp. to the second person of two when both names are unknown (the first person being referred to as John Doe)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Richard Roe

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n.
Used as a name in legal proceedings to designate an unknown man or boy or to protect the identity of a known man or boy, especially where there is another such individual in the case designated as John Doe.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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