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▪ I. docket, n.1|ˈdɒkɪt|
Also 5 doket, 5–9 dogget(t, 6–8 docquett, 6–9 docquet.
[Found since 15th c.: derivation and original sense obscure.
It has been suggested to be a derivative of dock v.1, the suffix being either the dim. -et1 (cf. pocket), or a var. of the -ed of pa. pple. But neither view is free from serious objections.]
†1. (?) Obs.
c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 313 May he dug hym a doket, A kodpese like a pokett.
†2. A brief, summarized statement; an abstract or abridgement; a digest, minute. Obs. exc. Hist.
a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. 25 Lett it alwey be remembered to make in the kinges doggettes both venit and recessit as often as it pleseth the King the prince to come or goe. 1526Ibid. 229 The Clerke of the Green Cloth shall..ingrosse and cast up all the particular Breifments of the House..and the same, soe cast up..enter in the Parchment docquett, called the Maine Docquet. Ibid. 234 The Clerk of the Spicery..doe dayly make the Briefments or docquets of the expence of his office. 1555Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 6 That every person..auctorised to..purveye any Beefes, Wethers, Lambes [etc.]..shall make a Docket or Briefe in writing..conteyning all & every suche Beefe, Wethers, Lambes [etc.] 1641Termes de la Ley 126 Docket is a little peece of paper or parchment written, that conteineth in it the effect of a greater writing. 1643in Clarendon Hist. Reb. vii. §347 Several proportions of arms mentioned in a docquet then sent inclosed in our said letters. 1858Doran Crt. Fools 219 The warrant..may have been preserved, and probably also a docket or short minute of it.
3. spec. The abstract of the contents of a proposed Letter-patent, written upon the King's bill which authorized the preparation of such letter for the Great Seal, and also copied into a Register or Docket-book.
1552in St. Papers, Domestic (MS.), Docquets I. [King's Bills endorsed ‘Docquet’]. 1576Ibid., A docquet of the contents of her mastes lettres patentes graunted the xvth of June. 1580,1590Ibid. 1660Pepys Diary 13 July, My patent..being done, we carried it..to Mr. Beale for a Dockett. 1662–3Ibid. 28 Feb., I did see the docquet by which Sir W. Pen is made the Comptroller's assistant. 1686Evelyn Diary 12 Mar., A docquet was to be seal'd importing a lease of 21 yeares to one Hall. Ibid. 5 May, We should be requir'd to passe a doquett dispensing with Dr. Obadiah Walker and four more..to hold their masterships, fellowships, and cures. a1837W. H. Black Docquets of Lett. Pat. Chas. I, 1643–6 (Recd. Commiss., unpubl.) Pref. vii, The Docquet books..present in the form of a Register or Journal short abstracts of all instruments that were prepared for the great seal in the offices to which they respectively belong.
4. Law. A memorandum or register of legal judgements.
1668–9Pepys Diary 12 Mar. (1879) VI. 20 To the Crowne Office, where we..did take short notes of the dockets. 1687Dr. Hedges in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) 204 The Steward ask'd for a docket of y⊇ fines. 1692Act 4 Will. & Mary c. 20 §1 Every Clerk of the Doggets of the Court of Kings Bench..shall..put into an Alphabetical Doggett by the Defendants names a particular of all Judgments for Debt. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Docket or Dogget, When rolls of judgments are brought into C.B. they are docketted, and entered on the docket of that term; so that upon any occasion you may soon find out a judgment, by searching these dockets, if you know the attorney's name. Ibid. s.v. Judgment, By rule of Michaelmas, 42 Geo. 3 (2 East. 136) no Judgment can be signed upon any warrant authorising any attorney to confess Judgment, without such warrant of attorney being delivered to and filed by the Clerk of the Dockets; who is ordered to file the warrants in the order in which they are received.
5. Law. A list of causes for trial, or of names of persons having causes pending. Hence phr. on the docket. (U.S.)
1790Dallas Amer. Law Rep. I. 382 The plea entered on the docquet. 1800Addison Amer. Law Rep. 14 Only one cause appeared on the docquet. 1828Webster, Docket,..3. An alphabetical list of cases in a court, or a catalogue of the names of the parties who have suits depending in a court. In some of the States, this is the principal or only use of the word. 1864Ibid. s.v., On the docket, in hand; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. (Colloq.)
†6. In phr. to strike a docket: see quots. Obs.
1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 115 The person has subjected himself to being a bankrupt: if so, he is made one, which is termed striking a docket. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict. s.v., ‘To strike a docket’ is said of a creditor who gives bond to the Lord Chancellor, proving his debtor to be a bankrupt; in consequence of which a commission of bankruptcy is taken out against him. 1835Hood Dead Robbery i, Of all the causes that induce mankind To strike against themselves a mortal docket. 1848Wharton Law Lex., Docket or Dogged..the entry made by the secretary of bankrupts, when a petitioning creditor's affidavit of debt is lodged with him for the purpose of issuing a fiat in bankruptcy, technically called ‘striking a docket’. 1852Thackeray Esmond iii. iv, Esmond..having fairly struck his docket in this love transaction, determined to put a cheerful face on his bankruptcy.
7. An endorsement on a letter or other document, briefly indicating its contents or subject; a label affixed for a similar purpose; a written direction, a ticket.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Docket, a little Bill ty'd to Goods or Wares, and directed to the Person and Place they are to be sent to. 1839Lady Granville Lett. 11 Feb. (1894) II. 282 You may find your delightful tour safe in red tape and docket. 1840Hood Up Rhine 76 Tourists..Provided with passport, that requisite docket. 1883I. Taylor Alphabet I. 253 On the outer edge of these tablets a docket is occasionally inscribed..containing a brief reference to the contents, evidently for the purpose of enabling the keeper of the records to find any particular document. 1886Cheshire Gloss., Docket, hatting term. The wage ticket of workpeople.
8. a. A warrant from the Custom House on entering goods, certifying the payment of the duty. b. A form of certificate giving particulars of the bales, marks, ship's name, etc., of cotton sold for future delivery, the presentation of which at the Cotton Clearing-house entitles the presenter to obtain a delivery order.
The dockets show the amount of cotton tendered on each Tendering Day at the Clearing House. When the same ‘form’ is used on a second Tendering Day, it is called a letter-docket.
1712Swift Jrnl. to Stella 13 Mar., He dreams of nothing but cockets, and dockets, and drawbacks and other jargon, words of the custom-house. 1887Times 27 Aug. 11/6 (Cotton Market) The tenders were 2,100 bales of which 100 [were] letter dockets.
9. attrib. and Comb., as docket-book (see sense 3), docket-rolls, docket-warrant.
1643St. Trials, Abp. Laud 13 Mar., For Worcester, there is no proof but the Docket-book. 1659Rushw. Hist. Coll. I. 637 There were then entred in the Docket Book, several Conge D'esliers and Royal assents for Dr. May to be Bishop of Bath and Wells [etc.]. 1690J. Palmer in Andros Tracts I. 34 As appears by the Dogget-Book of the Council. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) II. 12, I found the minute of the docquet warrant for this among the Conway papers. 1888W. Rye Records & Rec. Search. 48 note, Calendars and indexes of the Docket Rolls of the Common Pleas. Ibid. Index, Doggett or Docket Books (indexes to Common Law Judgment Rolls).
▪ II. † ˈdocket, n.2 Obs.
? = dock n.2 1.
c1590Greene Jas. IV, Wks. (Rtldg.) 193 Properties of a lion, a broad breast, a stiff docket.
▪ III. ˈdocket, v.
[f. docket n.1]
†1. trans. To furnish or inscribe with a docket.
1615Bacon Let. to King 12 Aug. in Rawley Resuscitatio (1657) Your Majesty shall shortly receive the Bill, for the Incorporation of the New Company: together with a Bill, for the Privy Seal, being a Dependancy thereof. For this Morning I subscribed, and docketted them both. 1621Ld.-Keeper Williams in Fortesc. Papers (Camden) 169, I could not all yesterday get the Clarke of the Signet to docquet the same. 1833Act 3 & 4 Wil. IV, c. 46 §69 The Lists of Occupiers..or a Copy thereof docqueted and signed by the Preses of any Meeting of the said Commissioners.
2. Law. To make an abstract of (judgements, etc.) and enter them in a list or index.
1692Act 4 Will. & Mary c. 20 §2 No Judgment not doggetted and entred in the Bookes..shall affect any Landes or Tenementes as to Purchasers or Mortgagees. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Judgment, Which Judgment..is..binding; provided the same..be regularly docketed; that is, abstracted and entered in a book. 1818Cruise Digest II. 58 It is said by Sir J. Jekyll, that judgements cannot be docketed after the time mentioned in the act. 1868Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 101 §22 Such assignation..may not have been docqueted with reference to such warrant.
3. To endorse (a letter or document) with a short note of its contents, writer, date, or the like.
1750Chesterfield Let. 5 Feb. (1870) 175 Whatever letters and papers you keep, docket and tie them up in their respective classes so that you may instantly have recourse to any one. 1779Franklin Lett. Wks. 1889 VI. 328 Returning immediately all the others, docketed and catalogued, as you please. 1851Ord. & Regul. R. Engineers ii. 4 These..official Returns, are to be properly docketed and addressed on the back. 1887T. A. Trollope What I remember I. xi. 229 Letters..carefully docketed with the date by my father.
b. transf. and fig.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics ix. i. (1860) II. 117 Every emotion was methodically docketed; every yearning of the heart minutely catalogued. 1883E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leicestersh. 244 The Season that is now filed and docketed with the past. 1894Sala Lond. up to Date xx. 300 Plans..docketed, and consigned to their proper imaginary pigeon-holes.
Hence ˈdocketed ppl. a., ˈdocketing vbl. n.
1810Lady Granville Lett. 29 Aug. (1894) I. 11 Having embarked me at last in a regular docketted correspondence. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. VII. xvii. viii. 86 In this docketing it lay, sealed for many years. 1866R. Chambers Ess. Ser. i. 152 A set of docketed papers, tied up with red tape. |