(1) The docket of a justice of the peace is a record in which the justice of the peace must enter:
(a) The title of every action or proceeding commenced in the court of the justice of the peace or before the justice of the peace, with the names of the parties thereto and the time of the commencement thereof.
(b) The date of making or filing any pleading.
(c) An order allowing a provisional remedy, and the date of issuing and returning the summons or other process.
(d) The time when the parties or either of them appears, or their failure to do so.
(e) Every postponement of a trial or proceeding, and upon whose application, and to what time.
(f) The demand for a jury, if any, and by whom made; the order for a jury, and the time appointed for trial.
(g) The return of an order for a jury, the names of the persons impaneled and sworn as a jury, and the names of all witnesses sworn, and at whose request.
(h) The verdict of the jury, and when given; and if the jury disagree and are discharged without giving a verdict, a statement of such disagreement and discharge.
(i) The judgment of the court, and when given.
(j) The date on which any judgment is docketed in the docket.
(k) The fact of an appeal having been made and allowed, and the date thereof, with a memorandum of the undertaking, and the justification of the sureties.
(L) Satisfaction of the judgment or any part thereof.
(m) A memorandum of all orders relating to security release.
(n) All other matters which may be material or specially required by any statute.
(2) The docket of a justice court may be maintained in electronic form. [Amended by 1999 c.788 §43; 1999 c.1051 §244]
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