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Mittimus
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MittimusThe name of an order in writing, issuing from a court and directing the sheriff or other officer to convey a person to a prison, asylum, or reformatory, and directing the jailer or other appropriate official to receive and safely keep the person until his or her fate shall be determined by due course of law.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Sheriff
The name of the chief officer of the county. In Latin he is called vice comes, because in England he represented the comes or earl. His name is said to be derived from the Saxon seyre, shire or county, and reve, keeper, bailiff, or guardian.
Convey
To transfer property to someone by selling it or by other means.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
Asylum
A place, of refuge where debtors and criminals fled for safety.
Official
civil and canon laws. In the ancient civil law, the person who was the minister of, or attendant upon a magistrate, was called the official.
Receive
To receive. Voluntarily to take from another what is offered.
Course
The direction in which a line runs in surveying.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
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Mitter
Law-French. To put, to send, or to pass; as mitter' l'estate, to pass the estate; mitter le droit, to pass a right.
Mittimus, crim
1) English practice. A writ enclosing a record sent to be tried in a county palatine; it derives its name from the Latin word mittimus, "we send." It is the jury process of these counties, and commands the proper officer of the county palatine to command the sheriff to summon the jury for the trial of the cause, and to return the record, &c. 2) Criminal law, practice. A precept in writing, under the hand and seal of a justice of the peace, or other competent officer, directed to the gaoler or keeper of a prison, commanding him to receive and safely keep, a person charged with an offence therein named until he shall be delivered by due course of law.
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Mitigating circumstances
These are facts that, while not negating an offence or wrongful action, tend to show that the defendant may have had some grounds for acting the way he/she did. For example, assault, though provoked, is still assault but provocation may constitute mitigating circumstances and allow for a lesser sentence.
Mitigation
A reduction, abatement, or diminution of a penalty or punishment imposed by law.
Mitigation of damages
A person who sues another for damages has a responsibility to minimize those damages, as far as reasonable. For example, in a wrongful dismissal suit, the person that was fired should make some effort to find another job so as to minimize the economic damage on themselves.
Mitior sensus
Construction. The more lenient sense. It was formerly held in actions for libel and slander, that when two or more constructions could be put upon the words, one of which would not be actionable the words were to be so construed, for verba accipienda sunt in mitiore sensu. 4 Co. 13, 20. It is now, however, well established, that they are not to be taken in the more lenient, or more severe sense, but in the sense which fairly belongs to them, and which they were intended to convey.
Mitter
Law-French. To put, to send, or to pass; as mitter' l'estate, to pass the estate; mitter le droit, to pass a right.
Mittimus
Mittimus, crim
1) English practice. A writ enclosing a record sent to be tried in a county palatine; it derives its name from the Latin word mittimus, "we send." It is the jury process of these counties, and commands the proper officer of the county palatine to command the sheriff to summon the jury for the trial of the cause, and to return the record, &c. 2) Criminal law, practice. A precept in writing, under the hand and seal of a justice of the peace, or other competent officer, directed to the gaoler or keeper of a prison, commanding him to receive and safely keep, a person charged with an offence therein named until he shall be delivered by due course of law.
Mixed
To join; to mingle. A compound made of several simples is said to be something mixed.
Mixed actions
practice. An action partaking of a real and personal action by which real property is demanded, and damages for a wrong sustained: an ejectment is of this nature.
Mixed government
A government composed of some of the powers of a monarchical, aristocratical, and democratical government.
Mixed jurisdiction
A country or a political subdivision of a country in which a mixed legal system (infra) prevails.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Sheriff
The name of the chief officer of the county. In Latin he is called vice comes, because in England he represented the comes or earl. His name is said to be derived from the Saxon seyre, shire or county, and reve, keeper, bailiff, or guardian.
Convey
To transfer property to someone by selling it or by other means.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
Asylum
A place, of refuge where debtors and criminals fled for safety.
Official
civil and canon laws. In the ancient civil law, the person who was the minister of, or attendant upon a magistrate, was called the official.
Receive
To receive. Voluntarily to take from another what is offered.
Course
The direction in which a line runs in surveying.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Mitter
Law-French. To put, to send, or to pass; as mitter' l'estate, to pass the estate; mitter le droit, to pass a right.
Mittimus, crim
1) English practice. A writ enclosing a record sent to be tried in a county palatine; it derives its name from the Latin word mittimus, "we send." It is the jury process of these counties, and commands the proper officer of the county palatine to command the sheriff to summon the jury for the trial of the cause, and to return the record, &c. 2) Criminal law, practice. A precept in writing, under the hand and seal of a justice of the peace, or other competent officer, directed to the gaoler or keeper of a prison, commanding him to receive and safely keep, a person charged with an offence therein named until he shall be delivered by due course of law.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Mitigating circumstances
These are facts that, while not negating an offence or wrongful action, tend to show that the defendant may have had some grounds for acting the way he/she did. For example, assault, though provoked, is still assault but provocation may constitute mitigating circumstances and allow for a lesser sentence.
Mitigation
A reduction, abatement, or diminution of a penalty or punishment imposed by law.
Mitigation of damages
A person who sues another for damages has a responsibility to minimize those damages, as far as reasonable. For example, in a wrongful dismissal suit, the person that was fired should make some effort to find another job so as to minimize the economic damage on themselves.
Mitior sensus
Construction. The more lenient sense. It was formerly held in actions for libel and slander, that when two or more constructions could be put upon the words, one of which would not be actionable the words were to be so construed, for verba accipienda sunt in mitiore sensu. 4 Co. 13, 20. It is now, however, well established, that they are not to be taken in the more lenient, or more severe sense, but in the sense which fairly belongs to them, and which they were intended to convey.
Mitter
Law-French. To put, to send, or to pass; as mitter' l'estate, to pass the estate; mitter le droit, to pass a right.
Mittimus
Mittimus, crim
1) English practice. A writ enclosing a record sent to be tried in a county palatine; it derives its name from the Latin word mittimus, "we send." It is the jury process of these counties, and commands the proper officer of the county palatine to command the sheriff to summon the jury for the trial of the cause, and to return the record, &c. 2) Criminal law, practice. A precept in writing, under the hand and seal of a justice of the peace, or other competent officer, directed to the gaoler or keeper of a prison, commanding him to receive and safely keep, a person charged with an offence therein named until he shall be delivered by due course of law.
Mixed
To join; to mingle. A compound made of several simples is said to be something mixed.
Mixed actions
practice. An action partaking of a real and personal action by which real property is demanded, and damages for a wrong sustained: an ejectment is of this nature.
Mixed government
A government composed of some of the powers of a monarchical, aristocratical, and democratical government.
Mixed jurisdiction
A country or a political subdivision of a country in which a mixed legal system (infra) prevails.
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