Commissaere
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In French law. A person who receives from a meeting of shareholders a special authority, viz., that of checking and examining the accounts of a manager or of valuing the apports en nature, (q. v.) The name is also applied to a Judge who receives from a court a special mission, e. g., to institute an inquiry or to examine certain books or to supervise the operations of a bankruptcy.
Arg. Fv. Merc. Law, 551.