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Custody vs Mittimus - What's the difference?

custody | mittimus |

As nouns the difference between custody and mittimus

is that custody is the legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children while mittimus is a warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.

custody

English

Noun

(wikipedia custody) (-)
  • The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
    • The court awarded custody to the child's father.
  • Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
    • I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.
  • The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
    • He was mistreated while in police custody .

    Derived terms

    * joint custody * maternal custody * paternal custody * protective custody * sole custody

    Related terms

    * custodial * custodian

    External links

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    mittimus

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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.
  • A writ for moving records from one court to another.
  • * 2013 , Mark Morgenstein, Suspect in prisons chief's death may have been freed 4 years early , CNN (March 31, 2013), [http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/31/justice/colorado-ebel-prison-records/index.html]:
    • 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.
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