Compromissum
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [quasi wnpromissum, a mutual promise.] In the civil and canon law. A submission to arbitrators. 4 Reeves' Hist. Eng. Xaw, 13, and note (p). Hence the modem term compromise, (q. v.)