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noun
Docket  n.  
1.
A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
2.
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.
(Law)
(a)
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.
(b)
(U. S.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.
4.
A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.
On the docket, in hand; in the plan; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. (Colloq.)





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"Docket" Quotes from Famous Books



... very sensible in marrying him. That was the way, Howat Penny told himself, that marriage should be consummated. He would never marry. David Schwar appeared with a sheaf of papers, which he himself proceeded to docket, and Howat ...
— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... the Assizes were sitting, and the docket was not very full, it was thought that the trial would soon ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... Wittaker. "Write out a docket, and bring it in every night. Now, I'll go over this Griscom case, so you'll understand how to go at it. Here, for ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... received a fee of five dollars for prosecuting the parties to a sanguinary affray. In the next he was equally successful, but barely escaped drowning in Spoon River. In the third there were but two families at the county-seat, and no cases on the docket. Thence he journeyed across a trackless prairie sixty miles, and at Quincy had one case and gained five dollars. In Pike County our much-enduring jurist took no cash, but found a generous sheriff ...
— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay


Words linked to "Docket" :   set, calendar, summarize, menu, jurisprudence, schedule, resume, agenda, program, law, sum up, fare, pose, put


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