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Definition of John Doe in English: John Doenoun North American Law 1An anonymous party, typically the plaintiff, in a legal action. Example sentencesExamples - ‘We have arrest warrants for everybody that we want to arrest, including the John Does,’ she said.
- For prosecutors, indicting John Does through their DNA might seem more than fair.
- More to the point, if he really does want to use the DMCA to subpoena the information why not file a John Doe lawsuit and then subpoena the information?
- These ISPs charged all but nine of the defendants as John Does at the time the suits were filed.
- Filing a John Doe complaint is ‘taking a belt-and-suspenders approach,’ the county attorney said.
- 1.1informal A hypothetical average man.
Example sentencesExamples - They're simply interviews that were trying to obtain the location of a John Doe.
- I dunno, you've never dated and next thing I know I see you making out with some John Doe.
- The lawsuit does not mention the names of players or exact dates; it simply lists 500 players as John Does 1 to 500.
- Dan, we only have a few seconds left, but there has been some speculation in resent days, fresh speculation, about a John Doe number two.
- Here the Josephines and Mataywenes and Boulevesses might just as well be John Does.
- It was almost as if this John Doe had not even existed.
- The company said the John Does posted ‘defamatory and disparaging material misrepresentations.’
- Look, I was at the morgue last night, yeah, but I never saw this John Doe, or anyone else.
- They're running tests on a John Doe who bears a striking resemblance to Sonny Corinthos.
Origin Mid 18th century: originally in legal use as a name of a fictitious plaintiff, corresponding to Richard Roe, used to represent the defendant. Definition of John Doe in US English: John Doenounˌjän ˈdōˌdʒɑn ˈdoʊ North American Law 1An anonymous party, typically the plaintiff, in a legal action. Example sentencesExamples - ‘We have arrest warrants for everybody that we want to arrest, including the John Does,’ she said.
- More to the point, if he really does want to use the DMCA to subpoena the information why not file a John Doe lawsuit and then subpoena the information?
- Filing a John Doe complaint is ‘taking a belt-and-suspenders approach,’ the county attorney said.
- For prosecutors, indicting John Does through their DNA might seem more than fair.
- These ISPs charged all but nine of the defendants as John Does at the time the suits were filed.
- 1.1informal A hypothetical average man.
Example sentencesExamples - Dan, we only have a few seconds left, but there has been some speculation in resent days, fresh speculation, about a John Doe number two.
- Here the Josephines and Mataywenes and Boulevesses might just as well be John Does.
- They're running tests on a John Doe who bears a striking resemblance to Sonny Corinthos.
- The company said the John Does posted ‘defamatory and disparaging material misrepresentations.’
- I dunno, you've never dated and next thing I know I see you making out with some John Doe.
- The lawsuit does not mention the names of players or exact dates; it simply lists 500 players as John Does 1 to 500.
- Look, I was at the morgue last night, yeah, but I never saw this John Doe, or anyone else.
- They're simply interviews that were trying to obtain the location of a John Doe.
- It was almost as if this John Doe had not even existed.
Origin Mid 18th century: originally in legal use as a name of a fictitious plaintiff, corresponding to Richard Roe, used to represent the defendant. |