In Roman law, a clause in a contract allowing cancellation under certain conditions; power or authority granted conditionally.
From Latin commissoria (sc. potestas) 'power of rescinding a contract,' from commissorius 'subject to forfeiture.'
Roman contract law invented the concept of conditional cancellation clauses—the idea that you could agree to something but cancel under certain conditions is actually quite modern and originated in ancient Rome.
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