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Home Dictionary Name: johnJohn Doe summons
John Doe summons : a summons made out to an unidentified defendant who is referred to in the summons as John Doe ...
john
john : a prostitute's client ...
John Doe
John Doe : a party to legal proceedings (as a suspect) whose true name is unknown or withheld compare jane roe, richard roe ...
Johns wort
See St Johns wort...
Anti-John law
Anti-John law, means a criminal law statute punishing prostitutes' customers, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 92....
Doe, John
Doe, John, the fictitious plaintiff in ejectment, whose services have been dispensed with since the abolition of the fiction by the Common Law Procedure Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 76), see EJECTMENT...
John Doe
John Doe, the name which was usually given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff in the mixed action of ejectment; he was sometimes called Goodtitle. See EJECTMENT. So the Romans had their fictitious personages in law proceedings, as Titius Seius, Juv. Sat.iv. 13....
Ketch, John
Ketch, John, the public executioner in the reigns of Charles II and James II. Formerly a popular name for those who succeeded him in his office....
Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff a celebrated character in Shakespeares historical play Henry IV 1st and 2d parts and also in The Merry Wives of Windsor He is a very fat sensual and witty old knight a swindler drunkard and good tempered liar and something of a coward Falstaff was originally called Sir John Oldcastle The first actor of the part was John Heminge...
Roe Richard
A fictious name for a party real or fictious to an act or proceeding Other names were formerly similarly used as John a Nokes John o or of the Nokes or Noakes John a Stiles etc...
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