Commenda
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In French law. The delivery of a benefice to one whe cannot hold the legal title, to keep and manage it for a time limited and render an account of the proceeds. Guyot, Rép. Univ. In mereantile law. An association in which the management of the property was intrusted to individuals. Troub. Lim. Partn. ce.
3, § 27.
Commenda est facultas recipiendi et retinendi beneficium contra jus positivum & suprema potestate.
Moore,905.
A cominendam is the power of receiving and retaining a benefice contrary to positive law, by supreme authoriiy.