Mittimus
//ˈmɪtɪməs// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.
"Away George, away, raise the watch at Ludgate, and bring a Mittimus from the Iustice for this desperate villaine."
- 2 A writ for moving records from one court to another.
"Next, sometimes the same clerk, but often a second clerk, who may not have been in the courtroom, types up the mittimus, the formal court order that directs corrections offers^([sic]) to commit someone to prison, and something could get lost in translation there."
- 3 A formal dismissal from a situation.
Example
More examples"Away George, away, raise the watch at Ludgate, and bring a Mittimus from the Iustice for this desperate villaine."
Etymology
From Latin mittimus (the opening word of such a document), first-person plural of mittō (“send”).
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