• commissioner: now used of legally commissioned persons only: lēgātus (one sent upon public business): Sall.: v. envoy, ambassador. In Latin the number of such c.s is often expr.: as, two c.s for building a temple, duumviri aedis faciendae, Liv.: so we find, triumviri reipublicae constituendae; decemviri legibus condendis, etc.: c.s of bankruptcy: *ii quibus negotium committitur ut in res debitoris qui non solvendo sit, inquirant, or de debitoris rebus, etc., quaestionem habeant: v. commission.