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Docket (court)

Civil Procedure and Judicial Process Doctrine

A docket, in the law of the United States, is the official summary record of the proceedings that have taken place in a case before a court, listing filings, hearings, orders and other steps in sequence. In the United Kingdom the same word is used in a narrower modern sense, for an official document that accompanies the delivery of something, though it carries a similar underlying sense of a formal record. The term has a long history: usage of docket in a legal recording sense has been documented since 1485, and by the late nineteenth century it commonly referred to a large folio book in which court clerks entered every filing and proceeding for each case that came before them.

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Procedural Law 1
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Entity-backed identity for the doctrine category value this doctrine already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a doctrine entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

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1. Wikipedia: Docket (court)
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