<Li> the 2016 film The Autopsy of Jane Doe . </Li> <P> Under the legal terminology of Ancient Rome, the names "Numerius Negidius" and "Aulus Agerius" were used in relation to hypothetical defendants and plaintiffs . </P> <P> The name "John Doe" (or "John Doo"), "Richard Roe," along with "John Roe", were regularly invoked in English legal instruments to satisfy technical requirements governing standing and jurisdiction, beginning perhaps as early as the reign of England's King Edward III (1327--1377). Other fictitious names for a person involved in litigation in medieval English law were "John Noakes" (or "Nokes") and "John - a-Stiles" (or "John Stiles"). </P> <P> The Oxford English Dictionary states that John Doe is "the name given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff, in the (now obsolete in the UK) mixed action of ejectment, the fictitious defendant being called Richard Roe". </P>

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