commissorius

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

commissōrĭus, a, um, adj. [committo]; Lex, in jurid. lang.,

a clause in the condition of a sale or of a contract (by which a vendor reserved to himself the privilege of rescinding the sale if the purchaser did not pay his purchase-money at the time agreed on), Dig. 18, 3, 14.—So also absol. : com-missōrĭa , ae, f., Dig. 18, 3, 14; 43, 23, 11.