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

  • Res ipsa loquitur is Latin for "the thing speaks for itself."

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

  • 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

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

    Define That Term #19 2006

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

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2006

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

    Archive 2009-11-01 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Friday Blogaround 2009

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

    Trash talk 2009

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  • Latin.

    he speaks; she speaks.

    September 18, 2008