COMENDAM, eccles. law. When a benefice or church living is void or vacant, 
it is commended to the. care of some sufficient clerk to be supplied, until 
it can be supplied with a pastor. He to whom the church is thus commended is 
said to hold in commendam, and he is entitled to the profits of the living. 
Rob. 144; Latch, 236. 
     2. In Louisiana, there is a species of limited partnership called a 
partnership in commendam. It is formed by a contract, by which one person or 
partnership agrees to furnish another person or partnership a certain 
amount, either in property or money, to be employed by the person or 
partnership to whom it is furnished, in his or their own name or firm, on 
condition of receiving a share in the profits, in the proportion determined 
by the contract, and of being liable to losses and expenses, to the amount 
furnished, and no more. Civ. Code of Lo. 2810. A similar partnership exists 
in France. Code de Comm. 26, 33; Sirey, tom. 12, part 2, p. 25. He who makes 
this contract is called in respect to those to whom he makes the advance of 
capital, a partner in commendam. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 2811.