Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Richard Roe

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

otherwise TROUBLEsome. The casual ejector and ficitious defendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked. RICOHOME (Spanish).

In Spanish law. A nobleman; a count or baron. 1 White, Recop. 36.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Otherwise TROUBLESOME. The casual ejector and fictitious defendant In ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Doe.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

The name generally given to the fictitious defendant in an action of ejectment brought according to the strict foi'ms of the old practice.