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  • Yesterday's term was res gestae, which is defined as:

    Define That Term #88 2006

  • Yesterday's term was res gestae, which is defined as:

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2006

  • The presidential res gestae becomes more of a spectacle each year, and harder to take.

    Lew Rockwell: The Union of the State 2008

  • After having been in Italy for a while, I have been on an understandable kick on the subject - rereading the Res gestae divi Augusti and Tacitus' Annales, which books have only served to remind me why I'm on the social history side of things, not philology.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007

  • After having been in Italy for a while, I have been on an understandable kick on the subject - rereading the Res gestae divi Augusti and Tacitus' Annales, which books have only served to remind me why I'm on the social history side of things, not philology.

    Read this book. Patrick J. Smith 2007

  • Statements made within the res gestae of a crime or accident may be admitted in court even though they are "hearsay" on the basis that spontaneous statements in those circumstances are reliable.

    Define That Term #88 2006

  • Thus, the res gestae of a crime includes the immediate area and all occurrences and statements immediately after the crime.

    Define That Term #88 2006

  • Statements made within the res gestae of a crime or accident may be admitted in court even though they are "hearsay" on the basis that spontaneous statements in those circumstances are reliable.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2006

  • Thus, the res gestae of a crime includes the immediate area and all occurrences and statements immediately after the crime.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2006

  • The crucial document in the reconstruction of this history is undoubtedly the famous Chapter 34 of Augustus 'Res gestae, into whose formulation of authority republican ideas flowed and from whose formulation the pattern of the imperial idea emerged.

    AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968

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