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Definition of Committal
1. Noun. The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital).
Generic synonyms: Confinement
Derivative terms: Commit, Commit, Consign
2. Noun. The act of committing a crime.
Generic synonyms: Crime, Criminal Offence, Criminal Offense, Law-breaking, Offence, Offense
Derivative terms: Commit, Commit, Perpetrate
Definition of Committal
1. n. The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.
Definition of Committal
1. Noun. The act of entrusting something to someone. ¹
2. Noun. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment. ¹
3. Noun. The act of perpetrating an offence. ¹
4. Noun. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation. ¹
5. Adjective. Of or relating to a committee. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Committal
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Committal
Literary usage of Committal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Juvenile Offenders by William Douglas Morrison (1897)
"... of these institutions—Cost of juvenile institutions—Effect on crime of
institutions for juvenile offenders—Prison population—Committal to prison—Cases ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"1. delivery, consignment, consignation, committal, intrust- ment, ... reduction,
committal. common, a. 1. general, universal, mutual (properly only of two); ..."
3. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1884)
"Two days after the committal of Cham- ... The warrant of committal 1 Council
Register, Aug. 31. 1 Form of Submission, Rushworth, ..."
4. A History of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)
"PROCEDURE DOWN TO Committal FOR TRIAL OR BAIL. C1r. vll. HAVING in the last
chapter traced the history of the courts of a criminal jurisdiction, ..."
5. A Digest of the Law of Libel and Slander: And of Actions on the Case for by William Blake Odgers, James Bromley Eames (1905)
"Formerly there was a sharp distinction between committal and attachment.
Committal was the proper punishment for doing a prohibited act, and attachment for ..."
6. A Digest of the Law of Libel and Slander: The Evidence, Procedure, and by William Blake Odgers (1887)
"Formerly there was a sharp distinction between committal and attachment.
Committal was the proper punishment for doing a prohibited act, and attachment for ..."
7. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in ...by Edward William Cox by Edward William Cox (1907)
"... obtained by a fugitive criminal against whom the magistrate has upon the
evidence before him made an order of committal under the Extradition Act, 1870, ..."
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