What is COMMISSION? Definition of COMMISSION in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
A warrant or authority or letters patent, issuing from the government, or one of its departments, or a court, empowering a person or persons named to do certain acts, or to exercise jurisdiction, or to perform the duties and exercise the authority of an office, (as in the case of an officer in the army or navy.) Bledsoe v. Colgan, 138 Cal. 34, 70 P. 924.
Also, in private affairs, it signifies the authority or instructions under which one person transacts business or negotiates for another.
In a derivative sense, a body of persons to whom a commission is directed. A board or committee officially appointed and empowered to perform certain acts or exercise certain jurisdiction of a public nature or relation; as a "commission of assise."
Civil Law
A species of bailment, being an undertaking, without reward, to do something in respect to an article bailed; equivalent to "mandate."
Commercial Law
The recompense or reward of an agent, factor, broker, or bailee, when the same is calculated as a percentage on the amount of his transactions or on the profit to the principal. In this sense, however, the word occurs perhaps more frequently in the plural. Gray v. Stern, 85 Wash. 645, 149 P. 26, 28. Jackson v. Stanfield, 137 Ind. 592, 57 N.E. 14, 23 L.R.A. 588. Sinclair Coal Co. v. Pittsburg and Ashland Coal and Dock Co., 178 Minn. 114, 226 N.W. 206, 208. But the term may mean simply a compensation; Smith v. Starke, 196 Mich. 311, 162 N.W. 998, 999; and does not necessarily imply a mere per centum valuation; Jenkins v. Locke Paddon Co., 30 Cal.App. 52, 157 P. 537.
Also, a compensation to an administrator for the faithful discharge of his duties. In re Jula's Estate, 3 N.J.Misc. 976,130 A. 733, 735.
Criminal Law
Doing or perpetration; the performance of an act. Groves v. State, 116 Ga. 516, 42 S.E. 755, 59 L.R.A. 598.
Practice
An authority or writ issuing from a court, in relation to a cause before it, directing and authorizing a person or persons named to do some act or exercise some special function; usually to take the depositions of witnesses.
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