judge's notes

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judge's notes - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  JUDGE'S NOTES. They are short statements, made by a judge on the trial of a 
  cause, of what transpires in the course of such trial. They usually contain 
  a statement of the testimony of witnesses; of documents offered or admitted 
  in evidence; of offers of evidence and whether it has been received or 
  rejected, and the like matters. 
       2. In general judge's notes are not evidence of what transpired at a 
  former trial, nor can they be read to prove what a deceased witness swore to 
  on such former trial, for they are no part of the record, and he is not 
  officially bound to make them. But in chancery, when a new trial is ordered 
  of an issue sent out of chancery to a court of law, and it is suggested that 
  some of the witnesses in the former trial are of an advanced age, an order 
  may be made that, in the event of death or inability to attend, their 
  testimony may be read from the judge's notes. 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 166.