English Dictionary

mittimus

/ˈmɪtɪməs/

noun

(law, archaic outside the US) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody. / A writ for moving records from one court to another. / A formal dismissal from a situation.

The judge issued a mittimus for the defendant.

意味（1）

(law, archaic outside the US) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.

But she pertinaciously refused to make any response. So that he was about to make her mittimus to Bridewell when I departed.

意味（2）

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 to commit someone to prison, and something could get lost in translation there.

意味（3）

A formal dismissal from a situation.