docket (doket)

[Formerly sometimes spelled docquet (as if of F. origin), and with altered form dogget; stract; a brief. On the outer edge of these tablets a docket is occasionally inscribed in alphabetic characters, containing a brief reference to the contents, evidently for the purpose of enabling the keeper of the records to find any particular document in the archives where they were piled up. Isaac Taylor , The Alphabet, I. 253. 2. In law: ( a ) A summary of a larger writing; a paper or parchment, or a marginal space, containing the heads of a writing; a digest. ( b ) A register of judgments, more specifically of money judgments. Thus, a judgment for the foreclosure of a mortgage and sale of the property is not docketed in this sense; but if after sale there remains a deficiency for which a defendant is personally liable, the judgment for the deficiency is docketed against him, thus being made a lien on his real property in the county or district. (c) A list of causes in court for trial or hearing, or of the names of the parties who have causes pending, usually made in the order in which the causes are to be called. ( d ) In England, the copy of a decree in chancery, left with the record and writ clerk, preparatory to enrolment.-3. A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner or the place to which they are to be sent; also, a ticket attached to goods, specifying their measurement. See tick et.-4. A shred or piece. [Prov. Eng.] -5. A woodman's bill. [Prov. Eng.] To strike a docket, in Eng. law, to give a bond to the lord chancellor, engaging to prove the debtor to be a bankrupt, whereupon a fiat of bankruptcy is i ued against the debtor: said of a creditor. docket (dok'et), v. t. [ 1714 To make a judgment a lien on lands.-2. To enter in a docket; write a brief of the contents of, as on the back of a writing. tape. They were all docketed and marked, and tied with red Thackeray , Vanity Fair. 3. To mark with a docket or ticket. docking (dok'ing), n. [Verbal n. of dock2 , v . t.] 1. A cutting or clipping, as of a horse's tail. 2. The operation of cutting and piercing the dough for sea-biscuit.