Commitment - Law Dictionary Search Results
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commitment 1 : an act of committing: as a : placement in or assignment to a prison or mental hospital [petition for ] compare incompetent, interdiction NOTE: Commitment to a mental health facility is called civil commitment when it is not part of a criminal proceeding. Civil commitment proceedings are initiated by the patient, in the case of voluntary commitment, or by someone (as a family member or government agent) authorized by statute to petition for the patient's involuntary commitment. Some form of a hearing and periodic review is required in involuntary commitment proceedings. A criminal defendant may be committed to a mental hospital as a result of being found incompetent to stand trial, not guilty by reason of insanity, or incompetent to be sentenced. b : an act of referring a matter to a legislative committee c : a warrant committing someone to a prison 2 : an agreement or promise to do something in the future ;esp : a promise to assume a financial obligation at a fu...
Knew to be likely to be committed
Knew to be likely to be committed, the expression 'knew to be likely to be committed' imports at least an expectation founded upon facts known to the members of the assembly that an offence of a particular kind committed, would be committed. It means something more than a speculation that such an offence might happen to be committed, Dalel Ram Sarup v. Emperor, AIR 1946 Lah 222....
commit
commit com·mit·ted com·mit·ting vt 1 a : to put into another's charge or trust : entrust consign [committed her children to her sister's care] b : to place in a prison or mental hospital esp. by judicial order [was found to be gravely disabled and was involuntarily committed to the Central Louisiana State Hospital "In the Matter of K.G., 531 So. 2d 575 (1988)"] compare institutionalize, interdict c : to send (as a legislative bill) to a committee for consideration and report [ the crime bill to the joint committee] 2 : to carry into action deliberately : perpetrate [to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas "U.S. Constitution art. I"] 3 : obligate bind vi : to obligate or bind oneself [would not to the irrevocable order] ...
Attempt to commit an offence
Attempt to commit an offence, is an act, or a series of acts, which leads inevitable to the commission of the offence, unless something, which the doer of the act neither foresaw nor intended, happens to prevent this. An attempt may be described to be an act done in part-execution of a criminal design, amounting to more than mere preparation. An attempt to commit an offence can be said to being when the preparations are complete and the culprit commences to do something with the intention of committing the offence and which is step towards the commission of the offence. The moment he commences to do an act with the necessary intention, he commences his attempt to commit the offence, Koppula Venkat Rao v. State of Andhra Pradesh, (2004) 3 SCC 602....
Attempt to commit crime
Attempt to commit crime, an attempt to commit an offence is an act, or a series of acts, which leads inevitably to the commission of the offence, unless something, which the doer of the act neither foresaw nor intended, happens to prevent this. An attempt may be described to be an act done in part-execution of a criminal design, amounting to more than mere preparation, but falling short of actual consummation, and, possessing, except for failure to consummate, all the elements of the substantive crime. In other words, an attempt consists in itthe intent to commit a crime, falling short of, its actual commission or consummation/completion, Koppula Venkata Rao v. State of Andhra Pradesh, (2004) 3 SCC 602 (606); see also Aman Kumar v. State of Haryana, (2004) 4 SCC 379. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 511)...
Contractual lien
Contractual lien, this is a contractual right to retain possession pending payment of sums due to the possessor. The contractual lien, which is often equated with a pledge, is to be distinguished from it in that possession is taken for purposes other than security and unless otherwise agreed the lienee has merely a right to detain the goods until payment of what is due to him, not a right to sell them on default in payment, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(1), para 609, p. 265....
Commitment
The act of committing or putting in charge keeping or trust consignment esp the act of committing to prison...
Commitment
Commitment, (1) the sending a person to prison by warrantor order, either for a crime, contempt, or contumacy [see the (English) Debtors Act, 1869, for the abolition of imprisonment for debt, 32 & 33 Vict. c. 62, s. 5]. In the county Court, judgment debts which the debtor has the means [Re A Debtor, (1905) 1 KB 374] to, but will not pay, can be enforced by commitment for a term not exceeding six weeks. This procedure can be applied to an award under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906 (Bailey v. Plant, 1901 (1) KB 31); see ATTACH-MENT, and R.S.C. Ord. XLIV.; and (2) the sending to prison, pending his trial at Assizes or Quarte, Sessions, by justices of the peace, under the (English) Indictable Offences Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 42), of a person charged with an indictable offence, in a case where the evidence is sufficient....
Whoever attempts to commit an offence
Whoever attempts to commit an offence, the expression 'whoever attempts to commit an offence' in s. 511 can only mean whoever intends to do a certain act with the intent or knowledge necessary for the commission of that offence, Om Prakah v. State of Punjab, AIR 1961 SC 1782 (1785): (1962) 2 SCR 254. (Indian Penal Code, s. 511)...
civil commitment
civil commitment : court-ordered institutionalization of a person suffering from mental illness, alcoholism, or drug addiction usually upon a finding that the person is dangerous to himself or herself or to others ...
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