Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Minutes
1. Memoranda or notes of a transaction or proceeding. 2. Scots law. Written forms for preserving evidence. "When it is necessary to preserve evidence of any incidental judicial act or statement, this is done in the Court of Session, and also in the inferior courts, by a minute. Thus, where the pursuer restricts his libel, or makes a reference to the defender's oath ... this is done by a minute. Strictly speaking, those minutes ought to be prepared by the clerk of court, as their form imports. They commence with the name of the counsel .. . and purport to be a statement made by him ...." William Bell, Bell's Dictionary and Digest of the Law of Scotland 721 (George Watson ed., 7th ed., 1890).
minutes book
See MINUTE BOOK.