Minutes

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Official memoranda of what takes place in a court; made by the clerk, and preserved in his " minute-book." From these memoranda the record is afterward made, the minutes themselves not being considered part of the record. The courts are to take notice how the records of their own and of other courts are in fact made and kept. The clerk must of necessity take down the doings of the court in brief notes. This he usually does in a minute-book called the " docket," from which a full, extended, and intelligible record is afterward to be made up. Until they can be so made, these short notes must stand as the record." But it is not the office of the clerk's minutes to indicate the legal questions raised upon the trial of a case.* 3. The record of the proceedings had before the board of directors of a corporation; usually made by the secretary. Failure to make minutes will not invalidate a corporate act, even where the charter directs that they be made or kept. If not kept, or if lost, destroyed, or for other reason not produced after request duly made, secondary evidence of the proceeding will be admitted.'