Lex Commissoria
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In Roman law. A law by which a debtor and creditor might agree, where a thing had been pledged to the latter to secure the debt, that, if the debtor did not pay at the day, the pledge should become the absolute property of the creditor. This was abolished by a law of Constantine. Kent, Comm. 583. A law according to which a seller might stipulate that, if the price of the thiner sold were not paid within a certain time, the sale should be void. Dig. 18. 3.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A law by which a debtor and creditor might agree (where a thing bad been pledged to the latter to secure the debt) that, if the debtor did not pay at the day, the pledge should become the absolute property of the creditor. 2 Kent. Comm. 583. This was abolished by a law of Constantine. A law according to which a seller might stipulate that, if the price of the thing sold were not paid within a certain time, the sale should be void. Dig. 18, 3.
Defined under Lex in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Roman law. A law by which a debtor and ereditor might agree (where a thing had been pledged to the latter to secure the debt) that, if the debtor did not pay at the day, the pledge should become the absolute property of the creditor. 2 Kent, Comm. 583. This was abolisied by a law of Constantine. A jaw according to which a seller might stipulate that, if the price of the thing sold were not paid within a certain time, the sale should be void. Dig. 18, 3.