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Commitment
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A writ or other lawful order by which a court or magistrate directs a ministerial officer to take a person to prison for committing a crime, for contempt, or for not paying a debt.
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Order of Commitment, 11 April 1839 [
State of Missouri v. Worthington et al. for Larceny
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