mittimus (mitimus)

[So called from the word beginning the writ (in L.), L. mittimus, we send, 1st pers. pl. pres. ind. act. of mittere, send: see mi ion.] 1. In law: ( a ) A precept or command in writing, given by a justice of the peace or other proper officer, directed to the keeper of a prison, requiring him to receive and hold Syn. 1. Blend, etc. (see mingle ), combine, compound, in in safe-keeping an offender charged with a crime until he be delivered by due course of law; a warrant of commitment to prison. (b) A writ directing the removal of a suit or of a record from the court granting it to another.2. A dismi al from an office or situation. Out of two noblemen's houses he had his mittimus of "Ye may be gone." Nash , Haue with you to Saffron-Walden. Mittler's green. See green1. mitty (mit i), n.; pl. mitties (-iz). [Origin obscure.] The small stormy petrel, Pro cellar i a pelagic a. Montagu. [Local, Eng.]