commission

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 the authority of an office (as in the case of an officer in the army or navy). 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 body composed of several persons acting under lawful authority to perform some public service. Standard Securities Service Corp. v. King, 161 Tex. 448, 341 S.W.2d 423, 426. A board or committee officially appointed and empowered to perform certain acts or exercise certain jurisdiction of a public nature or relation; as a "Public Service Commission". 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

Civil law

A species of bailment, being an undertaking, without reward, to do something in respect to an article bailed; equivalent to "mandate"

Compensation

The recompense, compensation or reward of an agent, salesman, executor, trustee, receiver, 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. Weiner v. Swales, 217 Md. 123, 141 A.2d 749, 750.

A fee paid to an agent or employee for transacting a piece of business or performing a service. Fryar v. Currin, App., 280 S.C. 241, 312 S.E.2d 16, 18.

Compensation to an administrator or other fiduciary for the faithful discharge of his duties

Criminal law

Doing or perpetration of a criminal act

@ commission agent

See commission merchant

- factor

@ commission broker

Member of stock or commodity exchange who executes buy and sell orders

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