Mittimus

//ˈmɪtɪməs// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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. 3
    A formal dismissal from a situation.

Etymology

From Latin mittimus (the opening word of such a document), first-person plural of mittō (“send”).

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