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  • 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...
  • REMITTOR
    A person who makes a remittance to another.
  • REMONSTRANCE
    Expostulation; showing of reasons against something 'proposed; a representation made to a court or legislative body wherein certain persons unite in urging that a contemplated measure be not adopted or passed. See Girvin v. Simon, 127 Cal. 491, 59 Pac. 945; In re Mercer County License Applications, 8 Pa. Co. More...
  • REMOTE
    This word la used in law chiefly as the antithesis of ''proximate," and conveys the idea of mediateness or of the intervention of something else. -Remote oanse. In the law of negligence, a "remote" cause of an accident or injury is one which does not by itself alone produce the More...
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