Remitter
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
estates, to be placed back in possession. When one having a right to lands is out of ssion, and afterwards the freehold is cast upon him by some defective title, and he enters by virtue of that title, the law remzts him to his ancient and more certain right, and, by an equitable fiction, supposes him to have gained possession under it.
3 BI. Com. 190; 18 Vin. Ab. 431; 7 Com. Dig. 234.