Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old English law, a writ by which the sheriff of a county palatine was required to summon a jury from the county for the trial of a cause, the record of which was inclosed or sent (hence the name) with the writ.
- noun In law:
- noun A precept or command in writing, given by a justice of the peace or other proper officer, directed to the keeper of a prison, requiring him to receive and hold in safe-keeping an offender charged with a crime until he be delivered by due course of law; a warrant of commitment to prison.
- noun A writ directing the removal of a suit or of a record from the court granting it to another.
- noun A dismissal from an office or situation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.
- noun A writ for removing records from one court to another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law A
warrant issued for someone to be taken intocustody . - noun A
writ for movingrecords from onecourt to another.
Etymologies
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Examples
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His countenance fell; and, after a hard internal struggle, while the clerk was employed in writing the mittimus, he said he hoped his worship would not send him to prison.
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In short, there was no remedy; the mittimus was made out, and poor Clinker sent to prison in a hackney-coach, guarded by the constable, and accompanied by your humble servant.
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Launcelot and his squire being found the aggressors, the justice insisted upon making out their mittimus, if they did not find bail immediately; and could hardly be prevailed upon to agree that they should remain at the house of the constable, who, being a publican, undertook to keep them in safe custody, until the knight could write to his steward.
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'Nos ad beatos vela mittimus portus, magni petentes docta dicta Sironis, vitamque ab omni vindicabimus cura.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Basset, and soon learned from him, that he had a mittimus to commit
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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Having thus made a full and ample confession, and signed the same on the 27th March, his _mittimus_ was made by Justice Lambert, and he was committed to Newgate, whither he was carried under a guard of
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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Holden's friends also at last took a sorrowful leave, and the mittimus being made out, it was handed to Basset, to remove the prisoner to the place of destination.
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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Vnde mittimus in Angliam literas domini imperatoris super hijs patentes, vobis & cæteris amicis nostris beneuolis.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First Raphael Holinshed
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His captor then demanded the mittimus, which he tore into small pieces, and scattered around.
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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Justice, in the first ebullition of his anger, made out another mittimus, which he almost forced into the other's unwilling hands, and commanded him to arrest the fugitive, wherever he might find him, by night or by day, on the Lord's Day or on any other day, were the place the Sanctuary itself.
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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