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Definition of Recommittal
1. committal [n -S] - See also: committal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recommittal
Literary usage of Recommittal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Patents for Useful Inventions by William Callyhan Robinson (1890)
"recommittal of Report for Further Hearing or Amendment. The court has power to
recommit the report to the master for a further hearing, or for an amendment, ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1898)
"I do not quite understand the distinction between the recommittal of the Bill
for the same purpose then and the recommittal of the Bill now. Mr. SPEAKER. ..."
3. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) (1860)
"On the Reformation or recommittal of Offenders. By EDWARD SHEPHERD, Governor of the
... IN this inquiry into the reformation or recommittal of offenders, ..."
4. An Historical Review of the State of Ireland from the Invasion of that by Francis Plowden (1806)
"... that he should vote for its recommittal, hoping some qualifications might be
adopted on further deliberation ; but at the same time he confessed, ..."
5. Manual of Procedure in the Public Business of the House of Commons by Courtenay Ilbert (1908)
"recommittal 200. When a bill stands for considera- 0 ' ' tion as amended it may,
on motion made, be recommitted to a committee of the whole house, ..."
6. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"Now, as to the recommittal: It seems to me that it would but prolong discussion;
that we have gone through the subject, and the Convention is in a position ..."
7. Official Report of the National Australasian Convention Debates: Sydney, 2 by New South Wales (1891)
"Mr. BAKER : I hope we shall bave no recommittal of the bill, because if we do we
shall not get home for another month. Sir SAMUEL GRIFFITH : I wish to know ..."
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