"Commissaire" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
In French law. A person who receives from a meetlug of shareholders a special authority, viz., that of checking and examining the accounts of a manager or of valuing the opporin en nature, (q. v.) The name ls also applied to a judge who receives from a court a special mission, e. g., to lnstltute an lnquiry, or to examine certain books, or to supervise the operations of a bankruptcy. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 551
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An old lady saw a little boy with a fishing-rod over his shoulder and a jar of tadpoles in his hand walking through the park one Sunday. "Little boy," she called, "don't you know you shouldn't go fishing on a Sunday?" "I'm not going fishing, ma'am," he called back, "I'm going home."
One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to …
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