Richard Roe

American  

[roh] / roʊ /

noun

1. a fictitious name used in legal proceedings for a male party whose true name is not known, used especially as the second such name when two male persons are involved whose real names have not been ascertained.

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Etymology

Origin of Richard Roe

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

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Richard Roe

The four others who have sued are also seeking to retain their anonymity: John Doe, Charles Coe, Michael Moe and Richard Roe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2021

In the final pages, Richard Roe is relieved of duty after a breakdown—Green’s rebuke to the evolving myth of the stoical “Blitz spirit”—and becomes frustrated as he struggles to recapture the experience of firefighting:

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016

Judge Glasser agreed that the connection was not a secret, adding that Mr. Oberlander and Richard Roe were "inseparable" in his mind.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2012

The lawyer, Frederick M. Oberlander, has been described in court records as Richard Roe.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2012

Why did he not make him out a case of John Doe and Richard Roe, of John Stokes and John à Nokes?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund