Docket

1, V. To abstract — and enter i a book.5 See Dock, 1. To enter in a book called a docket.

2, n.

A brief writing; an abstract, an epitme. Originally, a memorandum of the substance of a xjument written upon the back or outside of it. In me, these memoranda, particularly those of judgments, were transcribed into books, and the name docket " thereafter designated the books. A brief statement in a book of the things one in court in the progress of a cause; also, le book which contains such history; and, jain, a volume for the entry of all abstracts: a particular sort. Whence docket costs, docket entry, docket receipt, icket record, docket /ee — see Fee, 2. Numerous terms are in use descriptive of the nature the entries in dockets or of the persons by whom ey are made. Thus, there may be a, prothonotary^s a clerk's docket, a sheriff's or a marshal's docket, e docket of a magistrate, of an alderman or of a slice of the peace, an attorney's private docket; a nl, an equity, or a criminal docket, an appearance d an issue docket, a recognizance docket; a trial cket — of ten referred to as "the docket;" a judgynt and an execution docket; an ejectment, a meanic's lien, a, partition docket; an auditor's report cket. The docket of judgments is a brief writing or state- 1, V. Welsh toe-, doc-, to cut short, curtail. 2, n. itch dokke, a harbor: Gk. doche, receptacle.

City of Boston v. Leorow, 17 How. 434 (1854); The okeye State, 1 Newb. 71 (1856). Nickerson v. Tirrell, 187 Mass. 239 (1879), cases.

Cope V. Vallette Dry-Dock Co., 119 U. S. 627 (1887). ment of a judgment made from the record or roll, kept with the clerk, in a book alphabetically arranged.' Such docket affords purchasers and incumbrancers information as to the liens of judgments." Entries in dockets mayor may not be "records." They are admissible in evidence when a formal record is not required.'

See Index; Judgment; Minutes, 1; Notice, 1.