Where does the term john doe come from?
The “John Doe” custom dates back to the reign of England’s King Edward III, during the legal debate over something called the Acts of Ejectment. This debate involved a hypothetical landowner, referred to as “John Doe”, who leased land to another man, the equally fictitious “Richard Roe”, who then took the land as his own and “ejected”, or evicted, poor “John Doe”. Thus spake Wikipedia. C. :)!!
