单词 | jane roe |
释义 | > as lemmasJane Roe Jane Roe n. chiefly North American a name used (esp. in legal contexts) to denote a female party whose identity is unknown or deliberately withheld; a person so identified; cf. Jane Doe n. at Additions, Richard Roe n. ΚΠ 1788 T. W. Williams Orig. Precedents in Conveyancing I. 23 For and during such time as the said Jane Roe should remain unmarried. 1876 Scribner's Monthly May 512/1 (heading) The people vs. John Doe alias Gabriel Conroy, and Jane Roe alias Julie Conroy. 1912 J. O. Skinner Handbk. for Notaries Public N.Y. 196 ‘To Jane Roe (wife of Richard Roe)’, when she is the grantee. 1973 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 64 393/2 Almost one-third of the states had similar abortion statutes when Jane Roe brought her action against the Texas abortion statute in March 1970. 2004 Alameda (Calif.) Times-Star (Nexis) 19 Mar. The former students, whose identities were kept anonymous in the suit by identifying each as a ‘Jane Roe’. < as lemmas |
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