Docket

Definition - Transitive Verb
: to enter in a docket (as of a case or a court) <closure motions must be ~ed sufficiently in advance ­W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel>
compare calendar

Definition - Noun
[earlier doggette docquet summary, abstract, of unknown origin]
1 a  : a formal abridged record of the proceedings (as motions, orders, and judgments) in a legal action <the clerk shall keep a ~ in each case ­U.S. Code>
b  : a register of such records
2 a  : a list of legal actions to be heard by a court <the nearly 500 such cases on court ~s ­Rorie Sherman>
compare calendar
b  : the caseload of a court <a great part of our ~ consisted of regulatory agency cases ­R. H. Bork>
Pronunciation'dä-k&t

Pronunciation Key

  • \&\ as a and u in a b ut
  • \[^&]\ as e in kitt en
  • \&r\ as ur and er in f urther
  • \a\ as a inash
  • \A\ as a in ace
  • \?\ as o in m op
  • \au\ as ou in ou t
  • \ch\ as ch in ch in
  • \e\ as e in bet
  • \E\ as ea in easy
  • \g\ as g in go
  • \i\ as i in hit
  • \I\ as i in ice
  • \j\ as j in job
  • \[ng]\ as ng in sing
  • \O\ as o in go
  • \o\ as aw in law
  • \oi\ as oy in boy
  • \th\ as th in thin
  • \[th_]\ as thin the
  • \?\ as oo in loot
  • \u\ as oo in foot
  • \y\ as y in yet
  • \zh\ as si in vision


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writ of error coram nobis

a writ calling the attention of the trial court to facts which do not appear on the record despite the exercise of reasonable diligence by the defendant and which if known and established at the time a judgment was rendered would have resulted in a different judgment


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