Definition of docket
- n. - A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads
of a writing; a summary or digest.
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.
- n. - A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial,
prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.
- n. - A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in
any assembly.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as,
judgments regularly docketed.
- v. t. - To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for
trial.
- v. t. - To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.