Writofhabeascorpus vs Mittimus - What's the difference?
writofhabeascorpus | mittimus |
A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.
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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]:
As a noun mittimus is
a warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.writofhabeascorpus
Not English
Writofhabeascorpus has no English definition. It may be misspelled.mittimus
English
Noun
(en-noun)- But she pertinaciously refused to make any response. So that he was about to make her mittimus to Bridewell when I departed.
- 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.