different between custody vs mittimus

English

Etymology

From Latin custodia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custos (“a keeper, watchman, guard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?di?/ (Estuary English)
• Homophone: custardy (in some dialects)

Noun

custody (usually uncountable, plural custodies)

1. The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.

   The court awarded custody to the child's father.

2. 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.

3. The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.

   He was mistreated while in police custody.

4. (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.

   The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.

Derived terms

Related terms

• custodial
• custodian

Translations

Further reading

• custody in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• custody in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• custody at OneLook Dictionary Search

Further reading

• Custódia [1], Priberam Dictionary]

English

Etymology

From Latin mittimus (the opening word of such a document), first-person plural of mitt? (“send”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?t?m?s/

Noun

mittimus (plural mittimuses or mittimi)

1. (law, archaic outside the US) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.
2. 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), [1]:

     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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3. A formal dismissal from a situation.

Latin

Verb

mittimus

1. first-person plural present active indicative of mitt?