n. | 1. | One who remits. |
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. |
REMITTER, estates. To be placed back in possession.
2. 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. Com. 190; 18 Vin. Ab. 431; 7 Com. Dig. 234.