| Noun | 1. | commission - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle Synonyms: committee |
| 2. | commission - 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. | commission - the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions Synonyms: commissioning | |
| 4. | commission - the state of being in good working order and ready for operation; "put the ships into commission"; "the motor was out of commission" | |
| 5. | commission - a group of representatives or delegates | |
| 6. | commission - a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" | |
| 7. | commission - an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces Synonyms: military commission | |
| 8. | commission - the act of committing a crime Synonyms: perpetration, committal | |
| 9. | commission - a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" | |
| Verb | 1. | commission - put into commission; equip for service; of ships |
| 2. | commission - place an order for | |
| 3. | commission - charge with a task |
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.
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.
COMMISSION, crim. law. The act of perpetrating an offence. There are crimes of commission and crimes of omission.
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 a commission to take. depositions, see Gresley, Eq. Ev. 72.
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