Bates number
Meanings
Noun
- A number affixed to a document indicating its number in a series of documents, usually with respect to evidentiary documents being provided to the other party in a legal proceeding. Initially should be referenced as (Bates stamp p.1); subsequent references within the same document should follow as (p.2), (p.3), etc or (Bates stamp p.4).
Verb
- To stamp or label documents with Bates numbers.
Related
Similar words
- Bates stamp
Origin
- Derived from Bates, the surname of the inventor of the first serial number-stamping machine.
Modern English dictionary
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