different between writofhabeascorpus vs mittimus

English

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

mittimus (plural mittimuses or mittimi)

(law, archaic outside the US) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.
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.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
A formal dismissal from a situation.

mittimus

Send