(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 in American English
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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 asJohn Doe)
Word origin
see Doe
Examples of 'Richard Roe' in a sentence
Richard Roe
Why not John Doe or Richard Roe, or, hell, anything properly anonymous and uninformative?