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n. A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.

n. A writ for moving records from one court to another.

n. A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.

n. A writ for removing records from one court to another.

n. In law:

n. 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 in safe-keeping an offender charged with a crime until he be delivered by due course of law; a warrant of commitment to prison.

n. A writ directing the removal of a suit or of a record from the court granting it to another.

n. A dismissal from an office or situation.

n. In old English law, a writ by which the sheriff of a county palatine was required to summon a jury from the county for the trial of a cause, the record of which was inclosed or sent (hence the name) with the writ.

"In short, there was no remedy; the mittimus was made out, and poor Clinker sent to prison in a hackney-coach, guarded by the constable, and accompanied by your humble servant."