Remit
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
and REMISSION. Are applicable, vrithout involving departure from the vernacular meaning, to the release of a debt, the discharge of a penalty, and the pardon of an offence. Remit also means, in mercantile parlance, to forward money to a person at a distance; but the noun corresponding with this sense is remittance. Remittee and remitter are the persons receiving and sending the money respectively.