mittimus

noun /ˈmɪtɪməs/

1. A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.

   Away George, away, raise the watch at Ludgate, and bring a Mittimus from the Iustice for this desperate villaine.

2. A writ for moving records from one court to another.

   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.

3. A formal dismissal from a situation.

Where it comes from

From Latin mittimus (the opening word of such a document), first-person plural of mittō (“send”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry mittimus (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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