Commission : (noun)
1: a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a
committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours"
- Milton Berle [syn: committee]
2: a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an
amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as
distinguished from a salary); "he works on commission"
3: the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
[syn: commissioning]
4: the state of being in good working order and ready for
operation; "put the ships into commission"; "the motor was
out of commission"
5: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation,
delegation, delegacy, mission]
6: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do
something; "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: charge,
direction]
7: an official document issued by a government and conferring
on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed
forces [syn: military commission]
8: the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, committal]
9: a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a
confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a
message" [syn: mission, charge]
(verb)
1: put into commission; equip for service; of ships
2: place an order for
3: charge with a task
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Factorage \Fac"tor*age\, n. [Cf. F. factorage.]
The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his
services; -- called also a commission.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Commission : \Com*mis"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. commissio. See
Commit.]
1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of
perpetrating.
Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a
certain degree of hardness. --South.
2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a
trust shall be executed.
3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons;
a trust; a charge.
4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain
powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the
performance of certain duties.
Let him see our commission. --Shak.
5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and
authority; as, a colonel's commission.
6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some
duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate
commerce commission.
A commission was at once appointed to examine into
the matter. --Prescott.
7. (Com.)
(a) The acting under authority of, or on account of,
another.
(b) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have
three commissions for the city.
(c) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent
for transacting business for another; as, a commission
of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array.
Commission of bankruptcy, a commission appointing and
empowering certain persons to examine into the facts
relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the
bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors.
Commission of lunacy, a commission authorizing an inquiry
whether a person is a lunatic or not.
Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on
commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per
cent as his compensation.
Commission, or Commissioned, officer (Mil.), one who has
a commission, in distinction from a noncommissioned or
warrant officer.
Commission of the peace, a commission under the great seal,
constituting one or more persons justices of the peace.
[Eng.]
To put a vessel into commission (Naut.), to equip and man a
government vessel, and send it out on service after it has
been laid up; esp.,
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Commission : \Com*mis"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commissioned;
p. pr & vb. n. Commissioning.]
1. To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to
empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform
certain acts; to commission an officer.
2. To send out with a charge or commission.
A chosen band He first commissions to the Latian
land. --Dryden.
Syn: To appoint; depute; authorize; empower; delegate;
constitute; ordain.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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COMMISSION, practice. An instrument issued by a court of, justice, or other
competent tribunal, to authorize a person to take depositions, or do any
other act by authority of such court, or tribunal, is called a commission.
For a form of aCommission : to take. depositions, see Gresley, Eq. Ev. 72.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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COMMISSION, contracts, civ. law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do
something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This term is frequently
used synonymously with mandate. (q.v.) Ruth. Inst. 105; Halifax, Analysis
of the Civil Law, 70. If the service the party undertakes to perform for
another is the custody of his goods, this particular sort of,Commission : is
called a charge.
2. In a commission, the obligation on his part who undertakes it, is to
transact the business without wages, or any other reward, and to use the
same care and diligence in it, as if it were his own.
3. By commission is also understood an act performed, opposed to
omission, which is the want of performance of such an act; is, when a
nuisance is created by an act of commission, it may be abated without
notice; but when it arises from omission, notice to remove it must be given
before it is abated. 1 Chit. Pr. 711. Vide Abatement of Nuisances; Branches;
Trees.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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COMMISSION, office. Persons authorized to act in a certain matter; as, such
a matter was submitted, to the commission; there were several meetings
before the commission. 4 B. & Cr. 850; 10 E. C. L. R. 459.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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COMMISSION, crim. law. The act of perpetrating an offence. There are crimes
ofCommission : and crimes of omission.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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COMMISSION, government. Letters-patent granted by the government, under the
public seal, to a person appointed to an office, giving him authority to
perform the duties of his office. TheCommission : is not the appointment, but
only evidence of it; and as soon as it is signed and sealed, vests the
office in the appointee. 1 Cranch, 137; 2 N. & M. 357; 1 M'Cord, 233, 238.
See Pet. C. C. R. 194; 2 Summ. 299; 8 Conn. 109; 1 Penn. 297; 2 Const. Rep.
696; 2 Tyler, 235.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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