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  • REMISSION
    In the civil law. A release of a debt. It Is conventional, when It Is expressly granted to the debtor by a creditor having a capacity to alienate; or tacit, when the creditor voluntarily surrenders to his debtor the original title, under private signature constituting the obligation. Civ. Code La. More...
  • REMISSNESS
    This term Imports the doing of the act in question in a tardy, negligent or careless manner; but it does not apply to the entire omission or forbearance of the act Baldwin v. United States Tel. Co., 6 Abb. Prac. N. S. (N. Y.) 423.
  • REMIT
    To send or transmit; as to remit money. Potter v. Morland, 3 Cush. (Mass.) 388; Hollowell v. Life Ins. Co., 126 N. C. 398, 35 S. E. 616. To give up; to annul; to relinquish; as to remit a fine. Jungbluth v. Redfleld, 14 Fed. Cas. 52; Gibson v. People, More...
  • REMITMENT
    The act of sending back to custody; an annulment Wharton.
  • REMITTANCE
    Money sent by one person to another, either in specie, bill of exchange, check, or otherwise.
  • REMITTEE
    A person to whom a remittance is made. Story, Bailm.' f 75.
  • REMITTER
    The relation back of a later defective title to an earlier valid title. Remitter is where he who has the true property or jus proprietatis in lands, but is out of possession thereof, and has no right to enter without recovering possession in an action, bas afterwards the freehold cast More...
  • REMTTTIT DAMNA
    Lat An entry on the record, by which the plaintiff declares that he remits a part of the damages which have been awarded him.
  • REMITTITUR DAMNA
    Lat In practice. An entry made on record, in cases where a jury has given greater damages than a plaintiff has declared for, remitting the excess. 2 Tidd, Pr. 896.
  • REMITTITUR OF RECORD
    The returning or sending back by a court of appeal of the record and proceedings in a cause, after its decision thereon, to the court whence the appeal came, In order that the cause may be tried anew, (where it is so ordered,) or that Judgment may be entered in More...
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