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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
committal
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
order
▪ The first is that Form N111 was used as a committal order rather than Form N79.
▪ How can an administrative failure to serve an unimpeachable committal order invalidate the committal order?
▪ The committal order was for failing to attend court for examination of his means in proceedings to enforce judgement debts against him.
▪ For that reason I would for my part discharge this committal order.
▪ First, the committal order was not served on Mr. Butler within 36 hours after the execution of the committal warrant.
▪ I do not think that this did occur, there being confusion between the committal warrant and the committal order.
▪ There is evidence that a senior prison official received a copy of the committal order on Form N111 on 3 July 1992.
proceeding
▪ Arrangements for committal proceedings should be reviewed, and short term imprisonment discouraged as being expensive and of little reformative value.
▪ The magistrates adjourned the hearing until October 8, when committal proceedings are likely to take place.
▪ He was released on conditional bail pending committal proceedings.
▪ Melvyn Kelly, prosecuting, said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks.
▪ At the committal proceedings, Mr. Gilbert gave his account.
▪ The case was adjourned until June 22 for committal proceedings and Port, 39, was granted unconditional bail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Arrangements for committal proceedings should be reviewed, and short term imprisonment discouraged as being expensive and of little reformative value.
▪ He was granted bail by magistrates on his committal for trial.
▪ He was released on conditional bail pending committal proceedings.
▪ The court itself took the point that the committal was invalid and quashed a sentence of 18 months' imprisonment.
▪ The first is that Form N111 was used as a committal order rather than Form N79.
▪ The judge went on to say that they had notices of committal and that they had removed themselves from the jurisdiction.
▪ There was no possibility of his being able to purge his contempt within a short time of his committal.
▪ You merely listen in a non committal way.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Committal

Committal \Com*mit"tal\, n. The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
committal

1620s, from commit + -al (2). As an adjective, attested from 1884, apparently a back-formation from non-committal.

Wiktionary
committal

a. Of or relating to a committee. alt. Of or relating to a committee. n. 1 The act of entrusting something to someone. 2 The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment. 3 The act of perpetrate an offence. 4 The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

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WordNet
committal

  1. n. the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: commitment, consignment]

  2. the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, commission]

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Usage examples of "committal".

The press, of course, were there, though in nothing like the numbers there would be at the committal and trial.

However, this decision need not be binding upon the examining justices at any subsequent committal hearing.

I mean, we've got to show our hand at the committal to get the justices to agree to send him for trial at the assizes.

Because the committal hearing's only purpose was to decide whether the prosecution had a prima facie case against the accused, usually only the prosecution would put their case before the magistrates.

Even if we get our committal, we're still a long way off home and dry.

During the four-day committal, her mother, who married Hawkin just over a year ago, gave evidence for the prosecution.

At his committal before Buxton justices in February, his wife was among the prosecution witnesses.

Charlie Lomas managed to repeat his unflustered performance at the committal, impressing the jury with his open manner and his obvious unhappiness about the disappearance of his cousin.

Outside this world of movement there was absolute stillness and silence as if the rest of America was holding its breath at the committal of this gigantic crime.

The activity she had first encountered as she emerged from the silent corridors into the hallway was as nothing to what developed as the entire administration of the Citadel was marshalled to implement the Gevethen’s order for the committal of every resource to the immediate capture of the Count.

The sons of John of Barneveld had planned to avenge their father's death by the committal of a cruel and dastardly murder: fate and the treachery of mercenary accomplices had intervened, and now Groeneveld was on the eve of condemnation, and Stoutenburg was a wanderer on the face of the earth with a price put upon his head.

A preliminary committal hearing to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to proceed to a full trial is scheduled in Rome for December 7.

At the conclusion of the committal service, the chaplain intoned, “.

The words of the committal service said, 'When the sea shall give up her dead' -but that sea never would.

I caught barely one word in ten of the committal and then it was all over: no meaningless rifle salutes, no empty blowing of bugles, just the service and the silence and the dark shapes of stumbling men hurriedly placing fragments of broken ice over the canvas-sheeted forms.