Legal Opinion
Pablo De Leon Lopez v. Corporacion Insular De Seguros
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 19, 1991No. 90-1897PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Scholarly sources relate that the first English usage of the word “twin” as an adjective meaning “born at the same birth” appeared in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors (1590). See, e.g., XVIII Oxford English Dictionary 753 (2d ed. 1989); Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology 1178 (1988). The litigation pending before us, seeking damages for emotional distress suffered as a result of a hospital’s negligence in confusing one of the plaintiff’s identical twin granddaughters with another twin baby born at around the same time, is a poignant reminder of the origins of the term.
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