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  • Note 2: RHF, 18: 728A: Ex historia episcoporum Autissiodorensium: "corpus pueri mortui, quod propter interdictum civitatis ecclesiasticam non poterat habere sepulturam, importuno matris pueri excitus clamore et lacrymis, in ipsa episcopi camera ante lectum domini sui episcopi fecit humari in contumeliam ejus et dei contemptum." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Boadle, an English case of 1863,25 launched the phrase res ipsa loquitur—the thing speaks for itself.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Boadle, an English case of 1863,25 launched the phrase res ipsa loquitur—the thing speaks for itself.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Res ipsa loquitur, then -- but by all means avail yourselves of the combox.

    Trash talk 2009

  • Res ipsa loquitur, so I for one have nothing to add -- except to point out the colossal ignorance of the blogger with respect to therapeutic clowning.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • "There's a saying in Latin – res ipsa loquitur – 'the thing speaks for itself,'" Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany told reporters Sunday at Ford Field.

    Izzo's new motivation: Defend Big Ten's basketball reputation 2009

  • The questions answers itself, res ipsa loquitur as the lawyers say.

    Poetry and Jazz, Strange Bedmates, Sated at Last Con Chapman 2011

  • Res ipsa loquitur, then -- but by all means avail yourselves of the combox.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • - Echidne Of The Snakes: res ipsa loquitur looks at the news media looking at Hillary Clinton.

    Friday Blogaround 2009

  • Contrary to that old legal chestnut, res ipsa loquitor "the thing speaks for itself", things rarely do the talking.

    Why Trial Lawyers Say It Better Adam Freedman 2011

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