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COMMISSARY (from Med. Lat. commissaries, one to whom a charge or trust is committed) , generally, a representative; e.g., the emperor's representative who presided in his absence over the imperial diet; and especially, an ecclesiastical official who exercises in special
jurisdiction of a bishop
jurisdiction is exercised in a Consistory Court (q.v.), except in Canterbury, where the court of the diocesan as opposed to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the archbishop is called a commissary court, and the judge is the commissary general of the city and diocese of Canterbury. When a see is vacant the jurisdiction is exercised by a " special
metropolitan . Commissary is also a general military term
supply , transport and finance of an army. In the 17th and 18th centuries the commissaire des guerres, or Kriegskormisslir was an important official in continental armies, by whose agency the troops, in their relation to the civil inhabitants, were placed upon semi-political control . In French military law, commissarres du gouvernement represent the ministry of war on military tribunals, and more or less correspond to the British judge-advocate
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