Mittimus
//ˈmɪtɪməs//
"Mittimus" in a Sentence (3 examples)
Away George, away, raise the watch at Ludgate, and bring a Mittimus from the Iustice for this desperate villaine.
But she pertinaciously refused to make any response. So that he was about to make her mittimus to Bridewell when I departed.
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.
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