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Webster 1913 Edition

Mittimus

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Mit′ti-mus

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Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mittimus

MIT'TIMUS

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Noun.
[L. we send.] In law, a precept or command in writing, under the hand or hand and seal of a justice of the peace or other proper officer, directed to the keeper of a prison, requiring him to imprison an offender; a warrant of commitment to prison.
1.
A writ for removing records from one court to another.

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