Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mittimus"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mittimus \Mit"ti*mus\, n. [L., we send, fr. mittere to send.]
(Law)
(a) A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing
to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of
commitment to prison. --Burrill.
(b) A writ for removing records from one court to another.
--Brande & C.


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