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COMMI′SSUM. One sense of this word is that of "forfeited," which apparently is derived from that sense of the verb committere, which is "to commit a crime," or "to do something wrong." Asconius says, that those things are commissa which are either done or omitted to be done by a heres against the will of a testator, and make him subject to a penalty or forfeiture; thus, commissa hereditas would be an inheritance forfeited for some act of commission or omission. Cicero (Ad Fam. XIII.56) speaks of an hypothecated thing becoming commissa; that is, becoming the absolute property of the creditor for default of payment. A thing so forfeited was said in commissum incidere or cadere. Commissum was also applied to a thing in respect of which the vectigal was not paid, or a proper return made to the publicani. A thing thus forfeited (vectigalium nomine) ceased to be the property of the owner, and was forfeited, under the empire, to the fiscus (Dig. 39 tit. 4; Suet. Cal. c41).
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