case file

plural case files · alternative casefile

1. lawA file detailing a legal or medical case.

   he had gone into the case, seen the case file, and knew that the coroner and police investigations had identified the drowned child of so many years age as her son.

   1957, Gwendoline Butler, Coffin on the Water, page 62

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   All the correspondence regarding the case can also be filed directly in the case file, thus making it possible to have a complete history of the case at hand whenever the case is being looked up.

   1896, New York. State School, Rome, Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Rome State Custodial Asylum At Rome, N.Y., Issues 1-12, page 62

   A typical case file contains the following types of documents: agreement to arbitrate, correspondences regarding the selection of arbitrators, digest of case, transcript of proceedings of the arbitration board, exhibits, award, and related correspondence.

   1974, Mary-Jane M. Dowd (editor and compiler), Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the National Mediation Board Record Group 13, page 33