👉 Committal is a legal term used in some jurisdictions to describe a person who has been committed to prison for a period of time. It can also refer to the act of committing someone to prison, or it can be used as a verb meaning to commit to imprisonment. In most legal systems, committal refers to the process of charging someone with a crime and sentencing them to prison. Committal is typically done in a court of law, where the person is formally charged and their case is heard by