Commissum
One sense of this word is that of “forfeited,” which is derived from
the sense of the verb
committere, “to attach
legal effect to,” “to make operative.” Hence property forfeited
by the coming into effect of a condition was said to be
commissum, as
when a
lex commissoria (q. v.) was attached to a mortgage
(pignus). Commissa hereditas is an inheritance forfeited as a penalty
(
Verr. i. 10.27).