Prima facie is often confused with res ipsa loquitur ( literally, " the thing speaks for itself "), the common law doctrine that when the facts make it self-evident that negligence or other responsibility lies with a party, it is not necessary to provide extraneous details, since any reasonable person would immediately find the facts of the case.

In the common law of negligence, the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur ( Latin for " the thing speaks for itself ") states that the elements of duty of care and breach can be sometimes inferred from the very nature of an accident or other outcome, even without direct evidence of how any defendant behaved.

The term comes from Latin and is literally translated " the thing itself speaks ", but the sense is well conveyed in the more common translation, " the thing speaks for itself.

But the mines continued to be worked, though Strabo records that in his time the tailings were being worked over, and Pausanias speaks of the mines as a thing of the past.

Charles wrote to the Convent of Santa Clara caretakers: " It seems to me that the best and most suitable thing for you to do is to make sure that no person speaks with Her Majesty, for no good could come from it ".

This prompts the unique collaboration emanating from ARGs as well ; Sean Stewart, founder of 42 Entertainment, which has produced various successful ARGs, speaks to how this occurs, noting that “ the key thing about an ARG is the way it jumps off of all those platforms.

But the mines continued to be worked, though Strabo records that in his time the tailings were being worked over, and Pausanias speaks of the mines as a thing of the past.

Since Makoto speaks to the police through a voice scrambler, Yamashita is unaware that Makoto is behind the whole thing.

The composition alludes to the name, profession or personal characteristics of the bearer, and speaks to the beholder Non verbis, sed rebus, which Latin expression signifies " not by words but by things " ( res, rei ( f ), a thing, object, matter ; rebus being ablative plural ).

Instead, Ligeia speaks of fear personified in the " blood-red thing.

Despite having been shown, in her late teens, as a peppy, lively, cheery social butterfly, the adult Mulan Kato is a darker, brooding character who never speaks ( despite physically able to do so, Mulan prefers speaking as little as she can to prevent the much talkative Britt Reid Jr., and seemingly everyone else, from talking back ) and shows little, if no interest at all, for any form of socialization, a thing that seems to distress the second Green Hornet, every bit the suave socialite his father was.

This is a Latin phrase that means " the thing speaks for itself.

George speaks to Ellen of how much he loved Kate, considering her his muse, his " one true thing.

* Res ipsa loquitur ( The thing speaks for itself )

The phrase " speaks with a forked tongue " means to deliberately say one thing and mean another or, to be hypocritical, or act in a duplicitous manner.

* An action that reveals a criminal intent, that is, res ipsa loquitur, or " the thing speaks for itself ," or

The speech also contains the first known use of the legal axiom res ipsa loquitur, albeit in the form res loquitur ipsa, ( literally " the thing itself speaks " but usually translated as " the facts speak for themselves ").

He meets his new friends at this school: Pandora, a girl with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and a thing for locked boxes ; Stigmartha, a girl who has holes in her hands and bleeds from them whenever she's nervous ; Smith and Weston, conjoined twins who are very smart and conjoined at the head ; The Seep, an armless, legless, foul-mouthed kid in a vat ; and The Dead Guppy, a character who speaks for himself.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

He had his chance the very next morning, for exactly the same thing happened again.

A little thing, but the right twist for the action that counted.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

It was a somewhat unusual thing for a reporter to have a contract in those days before the epidemic of syndicated columnists.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

So be it -- then we must embark on a crash program for 200-megaton bombs of the common or hydrogen variety, and neutron bombs, which do not exist but are said to be the coming thing.

The highway system is an agency of government, and when it grinds up 40,000 Americans every year the government is destroying its own taxpayers, which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do.

The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.

Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.

He had lived for almost thirty years in this same stone farmhouse with the same wife, a remarkably childish thing in itself ; ;

I want to roast the whole thing, and have it for the boys ''.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

Even if you live above that line, the FHA will back you, for they have decided that the inclusion of air conditioning in all new homes is a good thing and should be encouraged.

It is, as one engineer says, `` indeed a difficult thing for the engineer to accept that he can go as far on his technical merit as he could employing managerial skills.

For one thing, the driver usually sees less and has less fun than his passengers since it becomes pretty necessary for him to keep at least one eye on the road.

We couldn't be seen together, for the tongue of Scandal was ever ready to link our names, and the tongue of Scandal finds but one thing to say of the association of a man with a girl, no matter how innocent.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.

Falling most easily prey to an adverse market movement, for this rank of traders can least afford to lose, virtually anything the odd-lot traders do, marketwise, is taken to exemplify the `` wrong '' thing to do.

Mr. John Magee, whose work has been discussed in this chapter, was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine profile as saying: `` Of course, you have to remember it's a good thing for us chartists that there aren't more of us.

The Providence Daily Post thought that there were probably good reasons for the haste in which the trial was being conducted and that the only thing gained by a delay would be calmer feelings.