Commissary

In Military Law. An officer whose principal duties are to supply an army, or some portion thereof, with provisions. ^In English Ecclesiastical Law. A title formerly applied to an officer who exercised spiritual jurisdiction in distant places of the bishop's diocese; being specially ordained for the purpose of supplying the bishop's jurisdiction and oifice in the outplaces of his diocese, or else in such places as were peculiar to the bishop, and exempted from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Lyndewode, Prov. c.

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