Committitur
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In practice. An order or minute, setting forth that the person named in it is committed to the custody of the sheriff.
— Committitur piece. An instrument in writing on paper or parchment, which ebarges a person, already in prison, in execution at the suit of the person who arrested him. 2 Chit. Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 1208.