Commitment
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In practice
The warrant or mittimus by which a ceurt or magistrate directs an officer to take a person to prison. The act of sending a person to prison by means of such a warrant or order.
People v. Rutan, 3 Mich. 49; Guthmann v. People, 203 III. 260, 67 N. E. 821; Allen v. Hagan, 170 N. Y. 46, 62 N. E. 1086.