Docket

Docquet, Dogget, A brief or abstract in writing. Cowell, An abridged entry of an instrument, or proceeding in an action; a list or register of such abridged entries. An abridged entry of a judgment; an entry made m a proper book, by the clerk of the court in which a judgment is recovered, containing an abstract of the judgment, that is, the title of the cause, amount of the judgment, time of the recovery, attorney s names, &c.

3 Bl. Com, 397, 398. 2 Tidd*s Fr. 939.

It is an index to the judgment. Id. ibid. The list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared by clerks for the use of courts is, in some of the United States, called a docket. In England, the entry made in the docket book at the bankrupt office, on delivery of a petitioning creditor's affidavit and bond, is called striking a docket. Eder Cs Bankr. Law, c.

4, sec. 1.

In the old definitions, a docket is said to be '< an abridged entry on a smc Ul piece of paper or parchment."

West Symhol, part 2, tit.

Fines, sect.

106.

The word however was used as far back as the statute 4 <fe 5 W. <fe M.c. 20 (A. D. 1692,) by which the docketting of judgments was first regulated, in the sense of an abridged entry in a book, which is its usual modem meaning. It is written dogget by West, {ub. sup.) and in the English statute just referred to. See the statute at large in Miller*s Law of Equitable Mortgages. Appendix, No. I. To DOCKET, Docquet, Dogget. To abstract and enter in a book.

3 Bl. Com, 397, 398.

To make an abridged entry of a judgment or other proceeding in a book kept for that purpose.* See Docket. Dogget is the word used in the statute 4 <fe 5 W. <fe M. c.

20.

Docquet is used by Blackstone, {ub, sup.) Docket is the modem form. Townsend gives some curious old forms of doggetting causes.

Toums. FL 159—162.