Doe
(1 syl.). John Doe and Richard Roe. Any plaintiff and
defendant in an action of ejectment. They were sham names used at one
time to save certain “niceties of law;” but the clumsy device was
abolished in 1852. Any mere imaginary persons, or men of straw. John
Doe, Richard Roe, John o' Noakes, and Tom Styles are the four' sons of
“Mrs. Harris,” all bound apprentices to the legal profession.
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