Legal Term Dictionary

Caused by or consisting In acts of commission, as distinguished from neglect, sufferance, or toleration; as in the phrase "commissive waste," which is contrasted with "permissive waste." See WASTE.

Caused by or consisting In acts of commission, as distinguished from neglect, sufferance, or toleration; as in the phrase "commissive waste," which is contrasted with "permissive waste." See WASTE. Less...

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 More...

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 become the absolute property of the creditor. This, however, was abolished by a law of Constantine. Cod. 8, 35, 3. See Dig. 18, 3; Mackeld. Rom. Law, ft 447, 461; 2 Kent, Comm. 583. Less...

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. People v. Beach, 122 Cal. 37, 54 Pac. 369; Cummlngton v. Wareham, 9 Cush. (Mass.) More...

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. People v. Beach, 122 Cal. 37, 54 Pac. 369; Cummlngton v. Wareham, 9 Cush. (Mass.) 585; French v. Bancroft, 1 Mete. (Mass.) 502; People Warden, 73 App. Div. 174, 76 N. Y. Supp. 728. To deliver a defendant to the custody of the sheriff or marshal, on his surrender by his bail. 1 Tidd, Pr. 285, 287. Less...

In practice. The warrant or mittimus by which a court or magistrate directs an officer to take a person to prison. The act of sending a person to prison by means of such a warrant or order. People v. Rutan, 3 Mich. 49; Guthmann v. People, 203 111. 260, 67 More...

In practice. The warrant or mittimus by which a court or magistrate directs an officer to take a person to prison. The act of sending a person to prison by means of such a warrant or order. People v. Rutan, 3 Mich. 49; Guthmann v. People, 203 111. 260, 67 N. E. 821; Allen v. Hagan, 170 N. Y. 46, 62 N. E. 1086. Less...

In practice. An assembly or board of persons to whom the consideration or management of any matter is committed or referred by some court. Lloyd v. Hart, 2 Pa. 473, 45 Am. Dec. 612; Farrar v. Eastman, 5 Me. 345. An Individual or body to whom others have delegated or More...

In practice. An assembly or board of persons to whom the consideration or management of any matter is committed or referred by some court. Lloyd v. Hart, 2 Pa. 473, 45 Am. Dec. 612; Farrar v. Eastman, 5 Me. 345. An Individual or body to whom others have delegated or committed a particular duty, or who have taken on themselves to perform it in the expectation of their act being confirmed by the body they profess to represent or act for. 15 Mees. & W. 529. The term is especially applied to the person or persons who are invested, by order of the proper court, with the guardianship of the person and estate of one who has been adjudged a lunatic. In parliamentary law. A portion of a legislative body, comprising one or more members, who are charged with the duty of examining some matter specially referred to them by the house, or of deliberating upon it and reporting to the house the result of their investigations or recommending a course of action. A committee may be appointed for one special occasion, or it may be appointed to deal with all matters which may be referred to it during a whole session or during the life of the body. In the latter case, it is called a "standing committee." It is usually composed of a comparatively small number of members, but may Include the whole house. —Joint committee. A joint committee of a legislative body comprising two chambers is a committee consisting of representatives of each of the two houses, meeting and acting together as, one committee.—Secret committee. A secret committee of the house of commons is a committee specially appointed to investigate a certain matter, and to which secrecy being deemed necessary in furtherance of its objects, its proceedings are conducted with closed doors, to the exclusion of all persons not members of the committee. All other committees are open to members of the house, although they may not be serving upon them. Brown. Less...

See MAGISTRATE.

See MAGISTRATE. Less...

In practice. An order or minute, setting forth that the person named in it is committed to the custody of the sheriff. —Committitnr piece. An instrument in writing on paper or parchment, which charges a person, already in prison, in execution at the suit of the person who arrested him. More...

In practice. An order or minute, setting forth that the person named in it is committed to the custody of the sheriff. —Committitnr piece. An instrument in writing on paper or parchment, which charges a person, already in prison, in execution at the suit of the person who arrested him. 2 Chit Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 1208. , Less...

In the civil law. The mixing together or confusion of things, dry or solid, belonging to different owners, as distinguished from confusio, which has relation to liquids.

In the civil law. The mixing together or confusion of things, dry or solid, belonging to different owners, as distinguished from confusio, which has relation to liquids. Less...

In Scotch law. A gratuitous loan for use. Ersk. Inst. 8, 1, 20. Closely formed from the Lat commodatum, (g. v.)

In Scotch law. A gratuitous loan for use. Ersk. Inst. 8, 1, 20. Closely formed from the Lat commodatum, (g. v.) Less...

Lat. In the civil law. An action of loan; an action for a thing lent An action given for the recovery of a thing loaned, (commodatum,) and not returned to the lender. Inst. 3, 15, 2; Id. 4, 1, 16.

Lat. In the civil law. An action of loan; an action for a thing lent An action given for the recovery of a thing loaned, (commodatum,) and not returned to the lender. Inst. 3, 15, 2; Id. 4, 1, 16. Less...