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Writ vs Mittimus - What's the difference?

writ | mittimus |

As nouns the difference between writ and mittimus

is that writ is a written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something while mittimus is a warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.

As a verb writ

is past participle of lang=en.

writ

English

(wikipedia writ)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
  • authority, power to enforce compliance
  • * '>citation
    • We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.
  • (obsolete) that which is written; writing
  • * Spenser
    • Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake.
  • * Knolles
    • Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ

    Derived terms

    * drop the writ * Holy Writ * writ of habeas corpus

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (Webster)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dated, nonstandard)
    • (Dryden)
  • * (Omar Khayyam) (in translation)
    • The moving finger writes, and having writ , not all your piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line

    Usage notes

    * The form writ'' survives in standard dialects only in the phrase ''writ large , though it remains common in some dialects (e.g. Scouse).

    Related terms

    * writ large ----

    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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