Docket

A formal record of judicial proceedings; a brief writing; a small piece of paper or parchment having the effect of a larger. Blount. An abstract. Cowell.

A formal record of Judicial proceedings; a brief writing. A small piece of paper or parchment having the ell a larger. Blount. An abstract CowelL To docket La Bald to bo by Blackstone to abstract and enter into a t '■ 397. The essenin court in the conduct of each case from its commencement to its conclusion. 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.

n. A minute, abstract or brief entry; or the book containing such entries. A small piece of paper or parchment having the effect of a larger. Blount.

In practice. A formal record, entered in brief, of the proceedings in a court of justice. A book containing an entry in brief of all the important acts done in court in the conduct of each case, from its inception to its conclusion. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1290. The name of "docket" or "trial docket" is sometimes given to the list or calendar of causes set to be tried at a specified term, prepared by the clerks for the use of the court and bar. Kinds of dockets. An appearance docket is one in which the appearances in actions are entered, containing also a brief abstract of the successive steps in each action. A bar docket is an unofficial paper consisting of a transcript of the docket for a term of court, printed for distribution to members of the bar. Gifford v. Cole, 57 Iowa, 272, 10 N. W. 672.. An execution docket is a list of the executions sued out or pending in the sheriff's office. A judgment docket is a list or docket of the judgments entered in a given court, methodically kept by the clerk or other proper officer, open to public inspection, and intended to afford official notice to interested parties of the existence or lien of judgments.

— Docket fee. An attorney's fee, of a fixed sum, chargeable with or as a part of the costs of the action, for the attorney of the successful party ; so calied because chargeable on the docket, not as a fee for making docket entries. Bank v. Neill, 13 Mont. 377, 34 Pac. l8O: Goodyear v. Sawyer (C. Oil 17 Fed. 2,

— Docket, striking a. A phrase formerly used in English bankruptcy practice. It referred to the entry of certain papers at the bankruptcy office, preliminary to the prosecution of the fiat against a trader who had become bankrupt. These papers consisted of the affidavit, the band, and the petition of the creditor, and their object was to obtain from the lord chancellor his fiat, authorizing the petitioner to prosecute his complaint agninst the bankrupt in the bankruptcy courts. Brown.

v. To abstract and enter in a book. 3 Bl. Comm. 897, 398. To make a brief entry of any proceeding in a court of justice in the docket

docquet, doggpt, doqiiet. To abstract and enter in a book; to make an abridged entry in a Ui action in a book kept for that purpose.

v. To abstract and enter ina book, 93 Bl. Comm. 397, 395, To make a brief entry of any proceeding in a court of justice in the 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.

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.

practice, is a formal record of judicial proceedings. The docket should contain the names of the parties, and a minute of every court. Docket is also said to be a brief writing, on a small piece of paper or parchment containing the substance of a larger writing.