Crossword clues for docket
docket
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Docket \Dock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Docketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Docketing.]
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.
--Chesterfield.-
(Law)
To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.
To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.
Docket \Dock"et\, n. [Dock to cut off + dim. suffix -et.]
A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
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.
--Bailey.-
(Law)
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.
(U. S.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.
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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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "a summary or abstract," of unknown origin, perhaps a diminutive form related to dock (v.). An early form was doggette. Meaning "list of lawsuits to be tried" is from 1709.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A summary; a brief digest. 2 (context legal English) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register. 3 (context legal English) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court. 4 An agenda of things to be done. 5 A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make an entry in a docket. 2 (context transitive English) To label a parcel etc. 3 (context transitive English) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize. 4 (context transitive English) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book. 5 (context transitive English) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
WordNet
n. (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities
a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to [syn: agenda, schedule]
v. place on the docket for legal action; "Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried"
make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list
Wikipedia
Docket may refer to:
- Docket (court), the official schedule of proceedings in lawsuits pending in a court of law.
- Agenda (meeting) or docket, a list of meeting activities in the order in which they are to be taken up
- Receipt or tax invoice, a proof of payment for items purchased
- Transport document, e.g. Air Waybill, Bill of Lading or CMR
A docket in the United States is the official summary of proceedings in a court of law. In the United Kingdom in modern times it is an official document relating to delivery of something, with similar meanings to these two elsewhere. In the late nineteenth century the term referred to the large folio books in which clerks recorded all filings and court proceedings for each case, although use has been documented since 1485.
Usage examples of "docket".
Gaal Dornick, who sat in the docket caught between boredom and fear for his life a numbing situation, as Hari well knew.
She hears people gibbering about Osama and al-Qaeda and she tries to think of the awful fireball approaching and the panic and the noise and the pyrolytic reek of burning aviation fuel and those microseconds of blind terror and all she can concentrate on is the window repairman with his bag of tools and triplicate dockets to sign.
Hunter Semmes was on the jail docket, she was relieved to get a negative.
He resumed his reading and docketing by the light of the little lamp which had just subserved the purposes of a spy.
Admiralty down on him like a hundred of bricks, but also the Navy Office, the Transport Board, the Victualling Office, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, the Home Office, and no doubt half a dozen other bodies, each better than the last at calling for accounts, dockets and vouchers, at handing down reprimands, at holding officers liable for extraordinary sums, and at involving them in endless official correspondence.
The Blood in the Red White and Blue unfurled before them, going up in flames for the stark parade of names sprung from briefs, dockets, decrees, each more hateful than the last till finally the smoke cleared, the music died and now the room echoed with the clop clop of a horse and carriage seen approaching up a drive adroop with Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black there he is!
In a secret drawer of his desk, making it difficult to open or close, lay docketed reports headed Villiers, Diana, widow of Charles Villiers, late of Bombay, Esquire, and Canning, Richard, of Park Street and Coluber House, co.
Yoshi was alert and well trained, and noticed the lapse and docketed it for future use, pleased that he had seen into his enemy.
Hoag heard the underlying passion, docketed it and left the matter there, his mind suddenly back in London where his sister and her husband were bringing up his son and daughter, as always hating himself for leaving India, bowing to convention and so killing her, Arjumand the lovely.
In his cubbyhole Ori was unafraid, fire drilled, safely out of the billowing smoke, hugging the floor, his mouth already covered with a beer-soaked rag, his emergency escape route automatically docketed the moment he had gone into the room.
He assessed and docketed this fact, wondering why he was thinking so slowly, and why he heard a roar coming from under his right ear.
For an object to be admitted for consideration in a trial it had to be ticketed, docketed and continuously accounted for.
The unmarked car ahead of us carried the four policemen and a variety of bagged, docketed, documented objects for which receipts had been given to Gordon Quint.
At the Palais de Justice they would tell him nothing: the list of new arrests had not yet been handled in by the commandant of Paris, Citizen Santerre, who classified and docketed the miserable herd of aspirants for the next day's guillotine.
There they were neatly docketed and marked: "The affairs of Arnould Fabrice.