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Webster 1913 Edition
Mittimus
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Mit′ti-mus
,Noun.
[L., we send, fr.
mittere
to send.] (Law)
(a)
A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.
Burrill.
(b)
A writ for removing records from one court to another.
Brande & C.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mittimus
MIT'TIMUS
,Noun.
1.
A writ for removing records from one court to another.Definition 2025
mittimus
mittimus
English
Noun
mittimus (plural mittimuses or mittimi)
- (law, archaic outside the US) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV, chapter x
- But she pertinaciously refused to make any response. So that he was about to make her mittimus to Bridewell when I departed.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV, chapter x
- A writ for moving records from one court to another.
- 2013, Mark Morgenstein, Suspect in prisons chief's death may have been freed 4 years early, CNN (March 31, 2013), :
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
- 2013, Mark Morgenstein, Suspect in prisons chief's death may have been freed 4 years early, CNN (March 31, 2013), :