Judicial Documents

Proceedings relating to litigation. They are divided into (1) judgments, decrees, and verdicts; (2) depositions, examinations, and inquisitions taken in the course of a legal process; (3) writs, warrants, pleadings, etc., which are incident to any judicial proceedings.

The papers and proceedings which constitute or become part of the record of a litigation. They include the writs, pleadings, documentary proofs, verdicts, inquisitions, judgment, and decrees incident to a cause or judicial proceeding. Inquisitions, examinations, depositions, affidavits, and other written papers, when they have become proofs of its proceedings and are found remaining on the files of a judicial court, are judicial documents. A deposition after being received and filed as such is a judicial document and can only be proved as such, and is not admissible as a written statement or confession of deponent. It cannot be received in part and excluded in part; Hammatt v. Emerson, 27 Me. 308, 46 Am. Dec. 598. Judicial documents are thus classified by Starkie: 1. Judgments, decrees, and verdicts. 2. Depositions, examinations, and inquisitions, taken in the course of a legal process. 3. Writs, warrants, pleadings, bills, and answers, etc., which are incident to judicial proceedings. As to the admissibility and effect of such documents, see, generally, Stark. Ev., Sharsw. ed. [316].

Proceedings relating to litigation. They are divided into
(1) judgments, decrees, and verdicts;
(2) depositions, examinations, and inquisitions taken in the course of a legal process;
(3) writs, warrants, pleadings, etc., which are incident to any judicial proceedings. See 1 St&rkie, Ev. 252,

Defined under Document in Black's Law Dictionary.

Proccedings relating to litigation. They are divided into (1) judgments, decrees, and verdicts; (2) depositions, examinatious, and inquisitions taken in the course of a legal process; (3) writs, warrants, pleadings, ete., which ara incident to any judicial proceedings. Seel Starkie, Iv. 252.