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committal
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun committal has 2 senses
- committal(n = noun.act) commitment, consignment - the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital); Array is a kind of confinement
- committal(n = noun.act) commission, perpetration - the act of committing a crime; Array is a kind of crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offence, offense
Derived form verb commit3
Derived form verb commit1
CIDE DICTIONARY
committal, n.
The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
committal, n.
1 the act of committing a person to an institution, esp. prison or a mental hospital.
2 the burial of a dead body.
1 the act of committing a person to an institution, esp. prison or a mental hospital.
2 the burial of a dead body.
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committal
Lawsuit
N lawsuit, suit, action, cause, litigation, suit in law, dispute, citation, arraignment, prosecution, impeachment, accusation, presentment, true bill, indictment, apprehension, arrest, committal, imprisonment, writ, summons, subpoena, latitat, nisi prius, venire, venire facias pleadings, declaration, bill, claim, proces verbal, bill of right, information, corpus delicti, affidavit, state of facts, answer, reply, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder, surrebutter, surrejoinder, suitor, party to a suit, plaintiff, defendant, litigant, hearing, trial, verdict, appeal, appeal motion, writ of error, certiorari, case, decision, precedent, decided case, reports (legal reference works, see reference books), litigious, qui tam, coram judice, sub judice, pendente lite, adhuc sub judice lis est, accedas ad curiam, transeat in exemplum.
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