mittimus
/mit-uh-muhs/US // ˈmɪt ə məs //UK // (ˈmɪtɪməs) //
姆迪姆斯,姆蒂姆斯,姆迪莫斯
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural mit·ti·mus·es.Law.
- : a warrant of commitment to prison.
- : a writ for removing a suit or a record from one court to another.
Examples
He informed us that the Judge had made out a mittimus and sentenced us to jail for treason.
Prisoners were here thrust into jail without a regular mittimus, the jailer having to send for one some days after.
This made him alter his purpose, and by a new mittimus sent us to the House of Correction at Wycombe.
Vnde mittimus in Angliam literas domini imperatoris super hijs patentes, vobis & cæteris amicis nostris beneuolis.
I must make out this young woman's mittimus, and have her confined until the grand jury sit.'
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