mittimus

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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. isim A formal dismissal from a situation.