in common law, the warrant or letters patent, which all persons exercising jurisdiction have to empower them to hear or determine any cause or suit; as the commission of the judges, and the like.

COMMISSION of Bankrupt. See BANKRUPTCY.

COMMISSION of Lunacy issues out of the court of chancery, in order to try whether a person represented to be a lunatic be so or not. See LUNACY.

COMMISSION of Teinds, a court at Edinburgh, which came instead of a committee of the Scottish parliament, for erecting new parishes, and valuing teinds for the support of the clergy. It is vested in the lords of session. See Scotland.

in Commerce. See FACTORAGE.