case file

English

Etymology

From case +‎ file.

Noun

case file (plural case files)

1. (law, medicine) A file detailing a legal or medical case.
   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.

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

     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.

Alternative forms

• casefile

Related terms

• casebook

Translations

Translations

• Danish: sagsmappe c
• Portuguese: autos do processo m pl