Mittimus

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
         [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MITTIMUS, English practice. A writ enclosing a record sent to be tried in a 
  county palatine; it derives its name from the Latin word mittimus, "we 
  send." It is the jury process of these counties, and commands the proper 
  officer of the county palatine to command the sheriff to summon the jury for 
  the trial of the cause, and to return the record, &c. 1 M. R. 278; 2 M. R. 
  88. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MITTIMUS, crim. law, practice. A precept in writing, under the hand and seal 
  of a justice of the peace, or other competent officer, directed to the 
  gaoler or keeper of a prison, commanding him to receive and safely keep, a 
  person charged with an offence therein named until he shall be delivered by 
  due course of law. Co. Litt. 590.