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Webster 1913 Edition
Remitter
Re-mit′ter
(-t?r)
, Noun.
1.
One who remits.
Specifically:
(a)
One who pardons.
(b)
One who makes remittance.
2.
(Law)
The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit.
Bouvier.
Webster 1828 Edition
Remitter
REMIT'TER
, n.1.
One who remits, or makes remittance for payment.2.
In law, the restitution of a more ancient and certain right to a person who has right to lands, but is out of possession and hath afterwards the freehold cast upon him by some subsequent defective title, by virtue of which he enters.3.
One that pardons.Definition 2024
remitter
remitter
English
Noun
remitter (plural remitters)
- One who remits, or makes remittance.
- One who pardons.
- (law) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right formerly held; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)