Commutation

i Putting one thing for another; substitution. As, of a tax, for a personal service; an annuity to a tribe of Indians, for goods; rations to a soldier, for money; * an artificial limb, for its value in money.' Commutation of p Tinishmeiit. The substitution of a less for a greater penalty or punishment; ' the change of one punishment for another and diflferent punishment, both being known to the law.s See Pardon. Commutable; commutative. Capable or admitting of substitution; not interchangeable for another — of less or equal »La. Civ. Code, 2375, 2393; 10 La. 146, 172, 181; 13 id.

698. See as to Texas, Hanriok v. Patrick, 119 U. S. 172 (1886), cases. ' Tibbetts v. Fore, 70 Cal. 244-^5 (1886), cases; Schuyler V. Broughton, ib.

283 (1886), cases. s Schriber v. Eapp (Harmony Society), 5 Watts, 3B1, 360 (1836); Baker v. Naohtrieb, 19 How. 126 (1856); Speiiel v. Henrici, 120 U. S. 377 (1887). ' L. commufare, to exchange with. » United States v. Lippitt, 100 U. S. 663, 670 (1879). • K. S. § 4788. value or degree. Opposed, incommutable, incommutative, non-commutable.