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contracts, practice. An allowance of compensation to an agent, factor, executor, trustee or other person who manages the affairs of others, for his services in performing the same. 2. The right of agents, factors or other contractors to commissions, may either be the subject of a special contract, or rest upon the quantum meruit. 3. This compensation is usually the allowance of … [Read more...] about COMMISSLONS

The whole body of officers who act in the department of the commissary, are called the, commissariate. … [Read more...] about COMMISSARIATE

In Roman law. A clause which might be inserted in an agreement for a sale upon credit, to the effect that the vendor should be freed from his obligation, and might rescind the sale, if the vendee did not pay the purchase price at the appointed time. Also a similar agreement between a debtor and his pledgee that, if the debtor did not pay at the day appointed, the pledge should … [Read more...] about COMMISSORIA LEX

In ecclesiastical law. One who is sent or delegated to execute some office or duty as the representative of his superior; an officer of the bishop, who exercises spiritual Jurisdiction in distant parts of the diocese. In military law. An officer whose principal duties are to supply an army with provisions and stores. … [Read more...] about COMMISSARY

In practice. To send a person to prison by virtue of a lawful authority, for any crime or contempt, or to an asylum, workhouse, reformatory, or the like, by authority of a court or magistrate. To deliver a defendant to the custody of the sheriff or marshal, on his surrender by his bail. 1 Tidd, Pr. 285, 287. … [Read more...] about COMMIT