Meaning of mittimus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.
2. A writ for moving records from one court to another.
3. A formal dismissal from a situation.

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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