Res gestae
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Things done; transactions; essential circumstances surrounding the subject. The circumstances, facts, and declarations which grow out of the main fact, are contemporaneous with it, and serve to illustrate its character.
See Stirling v. Buckingham, 46 Conn. 464; Ft. Smith Oil Co., v. Slover, 58 Aria 168, 24 S. W. 106; State v. Prater, 52 W. Va. 132, 43 S. E. 230; Davids v. People, 192 111. 176, 61 N. E. 537; Hall v. State, 48 Ga. 607; Railway Co., v. Moore, 24 Tex. Civ. App. 489, 59 S. W. 282.