DOCKET

Docket

A docket in the United States is the official summary of proceedings in a court of law. In the United Kingdom in modern times it is an official document relating to delivery of something, with similar meanings to these two elsewhere. In the late nineteenth century the term referred to the large folio books in which clerks recorded all filings and court proceedings for each case, although use has been documented since 1485.

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docket

Noun

  1. A summary; a brief digest.
  2. A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
  3. A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
  4. An agenda of things to be done.
  5. A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.

Verb

  1. To make an entry in a docket.
  2. To label a parcel etc.
    to docket goods
  3. To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
    to docket letters and papers
  4. To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
    judgments regularly docketed
  5. To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.


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