Minute

In Measures. In divisions of the circle or angular measures, a minute is equal to sixty seconds, or one-sixtieth part of a degree. In the computation of time, a minute is equal to sixty seconds, or the sixtieth part of an hour. See "Measure." In Practice. A memorandum of what takes place in court, made by authority of the court. From these minutes the record is afterwards made up. Tou Uier says they are so called because the writing in which they were originally was small; that the word is derived from the Latin minuta (scriptura), in opposition to copies which were delivered to the parties, and which were al Ways written in a larger hand.

8 Tou Uier, Dr. Civ. note 413.

Minutes are not considered as any part of the record.

1 Ohio, 268.

See 23 Pick. (Mass.) 184, though in some states, notably New York, they are by statute made part of the judgment-roll.

Code Crim. Proc. N. Y. § 485.