docket

How to use docket in a sentence

The Supreme Court is a full year behind its docket, and the delay will inevitably multiply your few 'croakers' by many thousands.

THE WRECKERSFRANCIS LYNDE

When the numerical index is adopted, an alphabetical index card with cross-references, including the docket index, is used.

Again he began whetting his forefinger on the leather back of the closed docket book.

It was three months after this before the case of Tom Muldoon came upon the docket.

Finally on February 4, 1817, on motion of counsel for the Granville heirs, the case was stricken from the docket.

Hoff (taking a large pocket-book out of his docket, and extracting a letter from it).

THREE COMEDIESBJRNSTJERNE M. BJRNSON

It was omitted in order to avoid lumbering the docket of the highest tribunal with petty details.

Against Humphrey there are three indictments for felony on the docket, each for conspiring, etc., to commit personal violence.

The complaint is not really legally filed until a justice of the peace takes it and records it on his docket.

WARREN COMMISSION (5 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. V (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

Although agrarian reform came first on the nation's docket, there were other reforms to help man improve his lot.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985