Able to be committed; capable of being sent to confinement, entrusted, or recorded officially.
From commit + -ible (variant of -able). A legal term that indicates whether something can lawfully be committed.
In mental health law, whether someone is committible—meaning they can legally be committed involuntarily—is a threshold question that courts must carefully examine, balancing individual liberty against public safety.
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