/dok"it/ , n. , v. , docketed, docketing .
n.
1. Also called trial docket . a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
2. Chiefly Brit.
a. an official memorandum or entry of proceedings in a legal cause.
b. a register of such entries.
c. any of various certificates or warrants giving the holder right to obtain, buy, or move goods that are controlled by the government, as a custom-house docket certifying duty has been paid.
3. the list of business to be transacted by a board, council, legislative assembly, or the like.
4. Brit. a writing on a letter or document stating its contents; any statement of particulars attached to a package, envelope, etc.; a label or ticket.
v.t.
5. Law. to enter in the docket of the court.
6. Law. to make an abstract or summary of the heads of, as a document; abstract and enter in a book: judgments regularly docketed.
7. to endorse (a letter, document, etc.) with a memorandum.
[ 1475-85; earlier dogget, of obscure orig. ]