Paper Book

In appellate practice. A book or paper, usually printed, containing a transcript or an abstract, as may be required, of all the evidence and proceedings submitted to the appellate court.

In Practice. A book or paper containing an abstract of all the facts and pleadings necessary to the full understanding of a case. The issues in actions, etc., upon special pleadings, made up by the clerk of the papers, who is an officer for that purpose. Upon an issue in law, it is termed the demurrer-book. The clerks of the papers of the court of K. B., in all copies of pleas and paper-books by them made up, shall subscribe to such paj Hir-books the names of the counsel who have signed such pleas, as well on behalf of the plaintiff as defendant; and in all paper-books delivered to the judges of the court, the names of the counsel who did sign those picas are to be subscribed to the books by the clerks or attorneys who deliver the same. Jac. L. Diet.; 2 Hill, Abr. 208. The courts of error, and other courts, on arguments, require that the judges shall each be furnished with such a paper-book; Tr. & II. Pr. 8G7. In Pennsylvania the printed copy of the record, the argument, etc., used in the supreme and superior courts is so called. In the court of king’s bench, in England, the transcript containing the whole of the proceedings filed or delivered between the 95; 3 Bla. Com. 317; 3 Chitt. Pr. 521; 2 Stra. 1131, 12GG; 2 Wils. 243.

A formal collection, copy, or file of the pleadings and proceedings in a cause, prepared for the judges upon the hearing; the transcript of the record.