commitment

commitment
A warrant, order, or process by which court or magistrate directs ministerial officer to take person to penal institution or mental health facility. Schildhaus v. City of New York, 7 Misc.2d 859, 163 N.Y.S.2d 201, 206.
Also, the act of taking or sending to the prison, mental health facility, or the like. A person is committed when he is actually sentenced to confinement by a court as contrasted with a suspended sentence or probation.
See also mittimus
The proceedings directing confinement of a mentally ill or incompetent person for treatment. Commitment proceedings may be either civil or criminal; and voluntary or involuntary. Due process protections are afforded to persons involuntarily committed; e.g. periodic judicial review of continued confinement. Fasulo v. Arafeh, 173 Conn. 473, 378 A.2d 553.
Agreement or pledge to do something; e.g. a statement by a lender that a loan will be made under certain terms. Commitments may be of various types, that is, a conditional commitment, subject to certain items being met, or a firm commitment, which is binding on the lender without conditions

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