Remitter
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
To be placed back in possession. When one having a right to lands is out of possession, and afterwards the freehold is cast upon him by some defective title, and he enters by virtue of that title, the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right, and, by an equitable fiction, supposes him to have gained possession under it. 3 Bl. Comm. 190; Comyn, Dig. "Remitter." REMITTERE (Lat. from re, again, and mittere, to send).
In old English practice. To send back; to give up or relinquish; to remise or release. Postea jus suum remisit, et qwietum clamavit, afterwards remised and quitclaimed his right. Bracton, fol. 313b. To remand on habeas corpus. 3 How. St. Tr. 161. REMITTIT DAMNA (Lat. he releases damages). An entry on the record, by which the plaintiff declares that he remits the damages or a part of the damages which have been awarded him by the jury, is so called. In some cases, a misjoinder of actions REMITTITUR DAMNUM (or DAMNA).
In practice. The act of the plaintiff upon the record, whereby he abates or remits the excess of damages found by the jury beyond the sum laid in the declaration. See 1 Saund. 285, note 6; 4 Conn, 109; Bouv. Inst. Index.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
To be placed back in possession. When one having a right to lands is out of possession, and afterwards the freehold is cast upon him by some defective title, and he enters by virtue of that title, the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right, and, by an equitable fiction, supposes him to have gained possession under it. 3 Bla. Com. 190; Com. Dig. Remitter; Litt. § 659. REMITTIT DAMN A (Lat. he releases damages). An entry on the record by which the plaintiff declares that he remits the damages or a part of the damages which have been awarded him by the jury. In some cases a misjoinder of action may
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
The sending back of a person to a title he had before, as where one who has the property in lands, but is out of possession, has the freehold cast upon him by some subsequent, and defective title, he is remitted, or sent back by operation of law, to his ancient and more certain title.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
The doctrine who acquires a later ted to his original good of incumbrances by the Remittit damna, /. The he remits part of the Remittitur: the sending an iaferior court for ceedings.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
A term in real-property law for a fiction or theory whereby one who has the right of entry in lands, but is out of possession, and who obtains possession of the lands under sopae subsequent title, which, however, is of course defective, is considered to be sent back (remitted), by operation of law, to his ancient and more certain title. The possession which he gained by a bad title is deemed annexed to his own good title, and his defeasible estate is annulled by the act of the law.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
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.