in transitu

American  

[in trahn-si-too, in tran-si-too, -tyoo] / ɪn ˈtrɑn sɪˌtu, ɪn ˈtræn sɪˌtu, -ˌtju /

adverb

Latin.

1. in transit; on the way.

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in transitu

This right exists while in transitu from one residence to another within the State, and may be claimed by the wife for the husband in his absence.

From How to Collect a Doctor Bill by Frank P. Davis

Longstreet’s corps is somewhere in transitu between Petersburg and Gordonsville, and would no doubt be ordered here, and it might arrive in time.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones

The monkey is a tall pyramidal kid or bucket, which conveys the grog from the grog-tub to the mess—stealing from this in transitu is so termed.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

Letters in transitu contain all manner of varied stimuli and shocks, yet to the postman, who is the nerve that conveys them, they are all alike, except as regards mere size and weight. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler

Besides, persons in transitu will leave much money in our cities and along their routes, to say nothing of the porterage and costs of transportation of goods.

From Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey