BATES STAMP

Bates stamp, n. 1. A self-advancing stamp machine used for affixing an identifying mark, usu. a number, to a document or to the individual pages of a document. 2. BATES-STAMP NUMBER. — Sometimes (erroneously) written Bate stamp.

Bates-stamp, vb. To affix a mark, usu. a number, to a document or to the individual pages of a document for the purpose of identifying and distinguishing it in a series of documents (the paralegal is Bates-stamping the records described in the request for discovery). — Sometimes (erroneously) written Bate-stamp.