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Definition of Mittimus
1. n. A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.
Definition of Mittimus
1. Noun. (context: legal historical except in US) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody. ¹
2. Noun. A writ for moving records from one court to another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mittimus
1. a warrant committing a person to prison [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mittimus
Literary usage of Mittimus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1791)
"8. mittimus, and the plaintiff brought fare facias upon it as ... ti the baron
and feme of their bodies, and in the mittimus he made him- Er. Fiend- 1 3. ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"mittimus, in law, the name of the precept which is addressed by competent ...
Though the mittimus need not be drawn with the utmost technical nicety, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Malicious Prosecution, False Imprisonment, and the by Martin L. Newell (1892)
"(2) Issuing mittimus after suffering defendant to go at large for a year, illegal.
... Cook issued a mittimus for the non-payment of fine and costs, ..."
4. New England Sheriff: Or, Digest of the Duties of Civil Officers; Being a by Isaac Goodwin (1830)
"It is the'duty of the officer, when he has received a mittimus from the ...
The officer to whom he was committed on the mittimus, may, in such case, ..."
5. The Practice of the Crown Office of the Court of Queen's Bench: With Forms by John Frederick Archbold (1844)
"mittimus into Lancashire. ofour county palatine of Lancas- county of Lancaster,
gentleman, and VICTORIA, icc. To the justices against JX, late of , in the ..."
6. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... and being himself in commission, he sent for lawyers in the town to advise
with, and would have taken up the mittimus, and kept us in his own house, ..."
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