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Definition of 'docket'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) docket
a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.

2.  docket
Chiefly Brit.

3.  docket
an official memorandum of proceedings in a court.

4.  docket
a register of such entries.

5.  docket
the list of business to be transacted by a board, council, legislative assembly, or the like.

6.  docket
Brit. a writing on a letter or document stating its contents; any statement of particulars attached to a package, envelope, etc.

7. (v.t.) docket
to enter in the docket of the court.

8.  docket
to abstract the heads of (a legal document) and enter in a book.

9.  docket
to endorse (a letter, document, etc.) with a memorandum.

Etymology: (1475–85)

Definition of 'docket'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) docket
(law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities

2. (verb) agenda, docket, schedule
a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

3. (verb) docket
place on the docket for legal action
"Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried"

4. (verb) docket
make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list

Definition of 'docket'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) docket
a small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest

2. (noun) docket
a bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label

3. (noun) docket
an abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court

4. (noun) docket
a list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks

5. (noun) docket
a list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly

6. (verb) docket
to make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers

7. (verb) docket
to make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed

8. (verb) docket
to enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial

9. (verb) docket
to mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods

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