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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



... his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He could not ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... government, we doe amerce him to pay a fine of twenty pounds to the use of the Colonie." One is inclined to think upon reading this rather severe "centance" that if the law of our day was somewhat similar the divorce docket would not be so ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 • Various

... 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

... into seats near the bench by a dapper young lawyer. Behind a railing, all about von Rittenheim, in front of him, beside him, and back of him, were the lean forms and bent shoulders of the mountaineers who were witnesses or principals in the whisky cases that fill so fully the docket of this court. From their appearance it was impossible to tell which were the law-breakers and which the bearers of testimony against them. There were old men and boys. Children were clinging to the skirts of ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

... declare that "Carlow events were crowding thick and fast." The congressional representative of the district was to deliver a lecture at the court-house; a circus was approaching the county-seat, and its glories would be exhibited "rain or shine"; the court had cleared up the docket by sitting to unseemly hours of the night, even until ten o'clock—one farmer witness had fallen asleep while deposing that he "had knowed this man Hender some eighteen year"—and, as excitements come ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington

... I was President of these here United States, I'd suck sugar candy and swing upon de gates; And them I didn't like, I'd strike 'em off de docket, And the way we'd go ahead, would be akin to Davy Crockit. With my zippy dooden, dooden dooden, dooden dooden dey, With my zippy dooden, dooden dooden, ...
— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... sitting, and the docket was not very full, it was thought that the trial would soon ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

... The criminal docket done, civil cases were called. The barefooted bailiff, Flag, stole out on the veranda occasionally to take a cigarette from the inhabitants of the valley of Taaoa, who crowded the lawn around the veranda steps. All save Kahuiti, they had come over the mountains to attend ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... "To remember it—to docket it. We may come on something later which will bear upon it. What steps do you propose to ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle

... hand, probably of later date, certainly in ink of a different colour, and paler. The word "Philosophy" is in Bacon's own hand, written lightly in the upper corner at the left, and is no doubt merely a docket inserted afterwards when he was sorting his papers. What connexion there was between the note and the manuscript it is impossible to say. But it is evidently a careful memorandum of something, set down by somebody when the manuscript was at hand; and so many of the characters resemble ...
— Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature • Sir Francis Bacon

... of Rizal's birth and baptism: "I, the undersigned parish priest of the town of Calamba, certify that from the investigation made with proper authority, for replacing the parish books which were burned September 28, 1862, to be found in Docket No. 1 of Baptisms, page 49, it appears by the sworn testimony of competent witnesses that JOSE RIZAL MERCADO is the legitimate son, and of lawful wedlock, of Don Francisco Rizal Mercado and Dona ...
— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig

... saloons were overburdened with custom; so were the police courts, the gambling dens, the brothels and the jails—unfailing signs of high prosperity in a mining region—in any region for that matter. Is it not so? A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty. Still, there is one other sign; it comes last, but when it does come it establishes beyond cavil that the "flush times" are at the flood. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... adjourned and the following Monday the Bell Circuit Court convened. The first case of importance on the docket was that of the Commonwealth against Saylor for ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt

... the devil, upon whom, I imagine, at this bibulous season many heavy duties fall—having thus toiled for two months—the international docket is clean, I've got done a round of twenty-five speeches (O Lord!) I've slept three whole nights, I've made my dinner-calls—you see I'm feeling pretty well, in this first period of quiet life I've yet found in this Babylon. Praise Heaven! ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick

... it is a Government Office, and I am in the Pigeonhole and Docket Department, with important duties to discharge. I hope you didn't imagine I sold ribbons ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, September 5, 1891 • Various

... The judge was scrawling on his docket. "Everything 's too crowded. Can't be reached before the November term. Set ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper



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