Res Gestae
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This article is for the legal term 'Res Gestae'. For the article on the record of the accomplishments of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, see the article for Res Gestae Divi Augusti.
In the practice of law, res gestae is the term used to refer to those facts or things done which form the basis or gravamen for a litigation action. Res gestae is a Latin phrase meaning things done.
Res gestae also refers to a rule of evidence that covers words or phrases so closely associated with an occurrence that the words are considered part of the occurrence and as such their report does not violate the hearsay rule [1] (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn2.0?stage=1&word=Res+Gestae).