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A docket in the United States is the official summary of proceedings in a court of law.[1][2] In the United Kingdom in modern times it is an official document relating to delivery of something,[2] with similar meanings to these two elsewhere. In the late nineteenth century the term referred to a large folio book in which clerks recorded all filings and court proceedings for each case,[3] although use has been documented since 1485.[4][5]
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oedwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 1641 Les Termes de la Ley; or certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes of this realme expounded: Docket is a little peece of paper or parchment written, that conteineth in it the effect of a greater writing.