Docket vs Legal - What's the difference?
docket | legal |
(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
(legal) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
(legal) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
An agenda of things to be done.
A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
To make an entry in a docket.
To label a parcel etc.
To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
(Webster 1913)
Relating to the law or to lawyers.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Having its basis in the law.
Being allowed or prescribed by law.
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, title= (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
(US, Canada) Paper]] in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 [[millimetre, mm × 355.6 mm).
As a noun docket
is (obsolete) a summary; a brief digest.As a verb docket
is to make an entry in a docket.As an adjective legal is
legal, lawful.docket
English
(wikipedia docket)Noun
(en noun)See also
*Verb
(en verb)- to docket goods
- to docket letters and papers
- (Chesterfield)
- judgments regularly docketed
legal
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Adjective
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