▪ I. remitter1
(rɪˈmɪtə(r))
[f. remit v. + -er1.]
1. One who forgives or pardons. rare.
| c 1557 Abp. Parker Ps. xli. 120 (Collect) Most gentle remitter of sinne, almighty God. 1586 Fulke Confut. Allen 143 Not properlie pardoners, forgiuers, or remitters of sinnes. |
2. One who sends a remittance.
| 1682 J. Scarlett Exchanges 32 The Drawer and Remitter should also..note the Mackelers or Brogers Name to every Parcel. 1745 De Foe's Eng. Tradesman xxviii. (1841) I. 279 It looks like a forwardness to take the remitters money without giving him a sufficient demand for it. 1757 Jos. Harris Coins 120 note, Dealers in bills of exchange are in general terms usually called remitters. 1861 Goschen For. Exch. 47 The premium is so high, that remitters will become indifferent whether they buy bills or send gold. 1884 Law Times Rep. LI. 390/1 As regards those remittances..the remitters were entitled to have them specifically appropriated. |
▪ II. remitter2
(rɪˈmɪtə(r))
[See remit v. and -er4.]
1. Law. a. A principle or operation by which one having two titles to an estate, and entering on it by the later or more defective of these, is adjudged to hold it by the earlier or more valid one. (Cf. remit v. 11 a.)
| 1544 tr. Littleton's Tenures 137 Remytter is an auncyent terme in the lawe, & it is where a man hath ii tytles to landes or tenementes..the lawe adjudgeth hym to be in by force of the elder tytle. 1599 W. Fulbecke Prepar. Study of Law (1620) 57 They wrote of Fines, Vouchers, Remitters. a 1625 Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 194 If he..haue the Freehold cast vpon him by a new title, he shall be in of his ancient title: which is termed a remitter. 1668 Hale Pref. Rolle's Abridgm. a ij b, The Titles of Discontinuance and Remitter are great and large Titles, and indeed full of curious Learning. 1768 Blackstone Comm. III. ii. 21 The operation of the remitter is exactly the same, after the union of the two rights, as that of a real action would have been before it. |
b. The act of remitting a case to another court for decision.
| 1726 Ayliffe Parergon 78 If the Judge a Quo has once admitted and yielded Obedience unto an Appeal, he cannot afterwards proceed in that Cause without a Remitter. 1808 Bentham Sc. Reform 106 Cases of remitter excepted,..no removal of a suit from division to division. |
† c. Remission, exemption. Obs. rare—1.
| 1726 Ayliffe Parergon 267 'Tis a Rule in Law, that in every general Remitter, it is never to be understood, that Fraud and Deceit is thereby remitted. |
2. Restoration to rights or privileges, or to a previous state; † a position to which one is restored. Also const. to. rare.
| 1623 in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) II. 373 The Lord of St. Albans is in his old remitter, and come to lie at his old lodgings in Gray's Inn. 1652 Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 15 The Laws about proclaiming War, Ambassie, Prisoners of War, Hostages,..Remitter upon return from Captivitie [etc.]. 1663 in Modern Reports (1682) I. 132 Confession and promise of future Obedience, ought to precede her remitter, or restitution to the priviledges of a wife. 1857 Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. II. 548 Could Louis have recovered the ancient royal residence, such a visible remitter to his pristine royal estate would have been very advantageous. |