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Docket

noun

(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. Synonyms: agenda, schedule.

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"Docket" Quotes from Famous Books

... not be forgotten that the Pacific Railroad stands next to the maintenance of National Unity on the docket of causes for adjudication by our representative tribunal. The people have filed it away till the grand appeal is settled; but they ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various

... most modest of face, are seated round the bar-a semicircular railing dividing their dignity from the common spectator-waiting the reading of the docket. The clerk takes his time about that, and seems a great favourite with the spectators, who applaud his rising. He reads, the sheriff crying "order! order!" while the judge learnedly examines his notes. Some consultation ...

— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams

Words linked to "Docket" : resume, agenda, program, pose, programme, plan, lay, put, summarise, place, sum up, set, position, schedule, fare, law, summarize, calendar, menu, jurisprudence