Caused by or consisting in acts of commission, as distinguished from neglect, sufferance, or toleration; as in the phrase “commissive waste,” which […]
Secular persons up-on whom ecclesiastical benefices were bestowed in Scotland; called so because the benefices were commended and intrusted to their supervision […]
In the civil law. Commendation, praise, or recommendation, as in the maxim “simplex commendatio non obligat,” meaning that mere recommendation or praise […]