Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- ‘He (she) speaks’: in plays, a stage direction indicating that the person named enters and speaks: as, Enter Marlitt, loquitur. Abbreviated loq.
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Examples
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Res ipsa loquitur is Latin for "the thing speaks for itself."
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Res ipsa loquitur is a phrase that, perhaps because it is in Latin, has taken on its own mystique, although it is nothing more than a brand of circumstantial evidence [FN14].
Personal Injury 2006
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Yesterday's term was res ipsa loquitur, which is defined as:
Define That Term #19 2006
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Yesterday's term was res ipsa loquitur, which is defined as:
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Res ipsa loquitur, then -- but by all means avail yourselves of the combox.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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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
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I've wracked my brain for possible defenses—assumption of risk,res ipsa loquitur,insanity—but I think the best I'm gonna be able to get for the big bird is to settle out of court.
Matt Slade, Esq.--Mascot Defense Attorney Con Chapman 2011
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I would make the customary MSM/NYT trashy remark here, but, as we lawyers say, res ipsa loquitur.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Al-Haramain Says, And What It Doesn’t Say 2010
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- Echidne Of The Snakes: res ipsa loquitur looks at the news media looking at Hillary Clinton.
Friday Blogaround 2009
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Res ipsa loquitur, then -- but by all means avail yourselves of the combox.
Trash talk 2009
jinglebelljosie commented on the word loquitur
Latin.
he speaks; she speaks.
September 18, 2008