mittimus
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4ADJ.
formal
VERB + MITTIMUS
bring, make, types
MITTIMUS + NOUN
bridewell, iustice
PREP.
from, up
Definitions
noun
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.
But she pertinaciously refused to make any response. So that he was about to make her mittimus to Bridewell when I departed.
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.
A formal dismissal from a situation.
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3Away George, away, raise the watch at Ludgate, and bring a Mittimus from the Iustice for this desperate villaine.
WiktionaryBut she pertinaciously refused to make any response. So that he was about to make her mittimus to Bridewell when I departed.
WiktionaryNext, 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 someon
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