An official order to send a person to prison.
The 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.
(MIT ih mus) Written court order directing a jailer to receive and safely keep a person until ordered otherwise.
Lat. "we send." The name of a precept in writing, issuing from a court or magistrate, directed to the sheriff or other officer, commanding him to convey to the prison the person named therein, and to the jailer, commanding him to receive and safely keep such person until he shall be delivered by due course of law.
The name of an order issued by a court that directs the sheriff or other officer to hand over a person to a prison or asylum and to keep that person until his or her fate is determined in the due course of law.