res gestaen.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 646/1 I find a larger report heereof elsewhere, and as more methodicall, so also (as it seemeth) in such forme as it was Res gesta.

1615 G. Carew Let. 24 Jan. (1860) 27 In this gazette you may not expect any more than res gestae.

1696 W. Nicolson Eng. Hist. Libr. I. 213 The like Scruples I have upon me as to some other Res Gestæ of this King, which are said to have been written by Robert Bale, sometime Recorder of London.

1733 L. Theobald Wks. Shakespeare VI. 300 (note) And let the Queen know of our Gests. i.e. res geste; our Feats, our glorious Actions.

1824 Oriental Herald Apr. 545 Sallust insinuates that it was the genius of the Athenian historians, and not the ‘res gestæ’, which communicated so much majesty and interest to the affairs of that republic.

1850 Church Rev. Jan. 527 So far is he carried away by this hostile spirit, that he perpetually violates the rule of the res gestae in his descriptions and illustrations, without making any allowance for the circumstances of time and place.

1893 J. C. Ridpath & S. Connor Life & Work J. G. Blaine i. 33 The birth-place of a man is perhaps less important than is usually supposed in biography. The particular spot where the man begins his career is hardly res gesta of the case.

1936 Mind 45 518 Signor Gentile..roundly denies any distinction between res gestae and historia rerum gestarum, maintaining that all history is contemporary history.

1959 A. G. Woodhead Study Greek Inscriptions 56 Cross~references concerning offices held or res gestae in general.

2002 K. Ghosh Wycliffite Heresy i. 33 Augustine says that the parable is not about ‘res gesta’—things which actually happened.

1794 Trial of J. H. Tooke in T. B. Howell's State Trials (1818) XXV. 440 That letter your lordships have received, and, I believe, without any objection from this side of the table, probably upon the ground, that as it is an answer to an act which is charged against the prisoner, it is fit to be received as part of the res gesta upon the subject.

1815 S. M. Phillipps Treat. Law of Evidence i. vii. 202 Hearsay is often admitted in evidence, as part of the res gestae; the meaning of which seems to be, that where it is necessary, in the course of a cause, to inquire into the nature of a particular act and the intention of the person who did the act, proof of what the person said at the time of doing it is admissible evidence, for the purpose of shewing its true character.

1857 Rep. Supreme Court Missouri 24 282 The declarations of Barnes, while acting as agent, were, as part of the res gestae, evidence against the plaintiff.

1900 A. N. Taylor Law in its Relations to Physicians viii. 432 The circumstances and statements forming part of the res gestæ are admissible in evidence.

1930 R. Burrows & C. M. Cahn S. L. Phipson's Law of Evidence vi. 54 Acts, declarations, and incidents which constitute, or accompany and explain, the fact or transaction in issue, are admissible, for or against either party, as forming parts of the res gesta.

1969 N. Dakota Law Rev. Winter 208 Children talk best in their native habitat. What they say when pressures of emotion and strangeness are absent is more apt to be true, somewhat analogous to res gestae.

2006 H. M. Holden To be Crime Scene Investigator iii. 76/2 Notes may qualify as res gestae evidence—circumstances and facts that may be admitted as evidence because they are relevant and shed light on the issues in question.