Commend Are
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In old European and feudal law. To commend, commit or entrust oneself to the protection of another, (called among the Saxons mundeburde, or mundbyrd.) Spelman. Cowell, voc.
Mundeburde.
Mr. Spence traces this practice to the Roman law.
1 Spence's Chancery, 29.