Remit
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
To annul a fine or forfeiture. This is generaly done by the courts where they have a discretion by law; as, for example, when a juror is fined for nonattendance in court, after being duly summoned, and, on appearing, he produces evidence to the court that he was sick and unable to attend, the fine will be remitted by the court. In Commercial Law. To send money, bills, or something which will answer the purpose of money.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
To annul a fine or forfeiture. This is generally done by the courts where they have a discretion by law: as, for example, when a juror is fined for non-attendance in court, after being duly summoned, and, on appearing, he produces evidence to the courts that he was sick and unable to attend, the fine will be remitted by the court. In Commercial Law. To send money, bills, or something which will answer the purpose of money. To send back, as to remit a check. Colvin v. Acc. Ass’n, 66 Hun, 543, 21 N. Y. Supp. 734.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
To send back; to send or transmit; to give up; to relinquish.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
1. To send back, as, a record to an inferior court. 3. To release, as, a debt; to discharge, as, a penalty; to pardon, as, an offense. 3. To relinquish, give up, as, damages awarded. The right of the trial court, in the exercise of a sound discretion, when it deems a verdict excessive, the result of ignorance, passion or prejudice on the part of the jury, to refuse a new trial, upon condition that the prevailing party remit such a sum as shall leave the recovery not excessive, has often been exercised.* See Remittitur, 1. Remitter. At common law, a redress by operation of law: where one who has right to lands, but is out of possession, has afterward the freehold cast upon him by some subsequent defective title, and enters by virtue of that title. ^ The law sends him back to his ancient, more certain title.'
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
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.