mittimus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. 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. A formal dismissal from a situation.

词形变化

mittimuses plural mittimi plural

词源

From Latin mittimus (the opening word of such a document), first-person plural of mittō (“send”).
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