Docket

A formal record of Judicial proceedings; a brief writing. A small piece of paper or parchment having the ell a larger.

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See Colby, Pr. 154.

In common use, it is the name given to the book containing these abstracts. The name of trial-docket is given to the book containing the cases which are liable to be tried at a specified term of court, called also calendar, or list. The docket should contain the names of the parties and a minute of every proceeding in the case. It is kept by the clerk or prothonotary of the court. The docket entries form the record until the technical record is made up in proper form; State v. Carroll, 38 Conn. 449, 9 Am. Rep. 409; Mc Grath v. Seagrave, 2 Allen (Mass.) 443, 79 Am. Dec. 797; Leathers v. Cooley, 49 Me. 337; Tracy v. Maloney, 105 Mass. 90; and this is true of the entries in the docket of a justice of the peace; Davidson v. Slocomb, 18 Pick. (Mass.) 464; Ellsworth v. Learned, 21 Vt. 535. A sheriff's docket is not a record; Thomas v. Wright, 9 S. & R. (Pa.) 91; Stevenson v. Weisser, 1 Bradf. (N. Y.) 343.