remittern.1
/rᵻˈmɪtə/, U.S. /rəˈmɪdər/, /riˈmɪdər/ 1. Law.† c. An exemption, a remission. Obsolete. rare.
a. The principle or process by which a person having two titles to real property, and entering on the property by the later and weaker of these, is deemed once in possession to be holding it by the earlier and stronger one. Cf. remit v. 11a.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > (principle relating to) plurality of titles
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c1443 in W. T. Barbour Hist. Contract in Early Eng. Equity (1914) 193 (MED) Hit was appoynted be the counsell of bothe parties, for perill of a remitter be cause the saide John the son was at that tyme far with in age, þat astate of the saide lifelode shulde be made to vj persons.
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xlixv Remytter is an ancyent terme in the law, & it is where a man hath .ii. tytles to landes or tenementes..the lawe adiudgeth hym to be in by force of ye elder tytle.
1600 W. Fulbecke Direct. Study Lawe iii. f. 23v They writ of Fines, Vouchers, Remitters.
a1625 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 M. 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.
1736 M. Bacon New Abridgm. Law I. 286 The Husband or Wife are attainted, and the Lord by Escheat shall enter, or the King have the Pernancy of the Profits, and how far such Freehold will work a Remitter to the Husband.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. 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.
1818 R. Preston Ess. Abstr. of Title II. 330 The law does, by this operation of remitter, redress the injury, by..reviving the ancient seisin under the rightful title.
1864 C. H. Scribner Treat. Law Dower (1867) I. xvii. 355 A case showing the operation and effect of the law of remitter upon the right of dower in wrongful estates is given by Fitzherbert.
1923 Yale Law Jrnl. 33 3 There was little or no attempt in either case to make out a constructive re-entry or a remitter.
1960 A.K.R. Kiralfy & G. H. Jones Gen. Guide to Soc.'s Publ. 96 The principle of remitter is considered, under which an older title is substituted for a younger title in the same person.
1992 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 36 79 Humphrey's heirs coming to the land would be accounted by the courts to be in the land by the older title according to the doctrine of remitter.
b. The action or an act of sending back a case from a superior court to a lower one; (also) an order authorizing this. Now chiefly Australian.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [noun] > transfer from one court or judge to another
replegiation1516
remittal1560
remit1650
remover1652
remittitur1714
remitter1726
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 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 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 106 Cases of remitter excepted,..no removal of a suit from division to division.
1864 Law Jrnl. Rep. (London) 33 162/2 The case could not be disposed of satisfactorily, unless Mr. Gipps was examined, either at their Lordships' bar or by a remitter to the Court below.
1914 Rep. Supreme Court Oregon 66 161 Jurisdiction is retained until the remitter is sent to and filed in the lower court.
1981 Commonw. Law Rep. (Austral.) 143 402 If the Parliament had intended the remitter should be made only to a court already invested with jurisdiction it would have been easy to say so.
2006 G. McIntyre in P. Read et al. What Good Condition? 210 Justice Brennan drew from the factual findings of Moynihan J (made on remitter from the High Court) in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), the following conclusions.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [noun] > remission of something due
remissiona1382
releasea1387
pardonc1387
relaxation1440
pardoningc1443
loosing1495
general discharge1565
absolute discharge1572
remitter1726
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 267 'Tis a Rule in Law, that in every general Remitter, it is never to be understood, that Fraud and Deceit is thereby remitted.
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society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > [noun] > restoring to a right or position
remitter1623
rehabilitation1831
society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > [noun] > restoring to a right or position > that to which one is restored
remitter1623
1623 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) 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 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 15 The Laws about proclaiming War, Ambassie, Prisoners of War, Hostages,..Remitter upon return from Captivitie [etc.].
1682 A. Colquitt Mod. Rep. 132 Confession and promise of future Obedience, ought to precede her remitter, or restitution to the priviledges of a wife.
1857 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
remittern.2
/rᵻˈmɪtə/, U.S. /rəˈmɪdər/, /riˈmɪdər/ 1. More fully remitter of sins. A person or divine being who forgives or pardons.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > [noun] > one who forgives
forgiver?c1225
remitter1548
pardoner1581
condoner1869
1548 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Luke in Paraphr. New Test. iii. f. xlv Thoughe I do baptise you with water, yet am I no remitter of sinnes [L. tamen non remitto peccata], I am..a preparer of you to a baptisme of more efficacie and vertue.
?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter xli. 120 Most gentle remitter of sinne almighty God.
1586 W. Fulke Against Allen 143 Not properlie pardoners, forgiuers, or remitters of sinnes.
1650 E. Leigh Annot. New Test. 61 Not ceremonies, for the Pharisees did abound in them, but justification by workes, looking for Christ a temporall King, and not a remitter of sinnes.
a1664 M. Frank LI Serm. (1672) 438 They make him both the healer of our nature, and the preserver of it, the remitter of our sins, and the conferrer of Grace.
1782 C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibern. III. 503 This appears to be the root of the Latin Druidas, Welsh, Drud, a Druid, i. e. the Absolver or Remitter of Sins.
1827 G. Croly Apocalypse of St. John 118 The sitter on its throne..assumed the attributes of Deity, proclaimed himself infallible, the remitter of sins, Lord of the gates of Hell and Heaven.
1897 G. Murray Hist. Anc. Greek Lit. v. 118 Outside and beyond the official temple-worship, there was the private and unauthorised preacher and prophet, the holder of mysteries, the seller of oracles, the remitter of sins.
1917 G. S. Hall Jesus in Light of Psychol. ix. 572 Jesus, the great remitter of man's debts of sin.
1954 Monumenta Nipponica 10 86 The Ruler of Earth, controlling the seventh to the ninth month, is a Remitter of Sins.
1988 G. S. Sloyan John v. 225 By the Spirit's power Jesus is making his disciples corporately remitters of sin.
2. A person who pays or sends a remittance (remittance n. 2).
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > remittance of money > one who
remitter1678
remittancer1751
remittent1855
1678 J. Vernon Compl. Compting-house 207 The Remitter is not to be credited until the Mony is received; for the Remitter must have credit as soon as the Bill is accepted.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xxv. 427 It looks like a forwardness to take the remitter's money without giving him a sufficient demand for it.
1757 J. Harris Ess. Money & Coins 120 (note) Dealers in bills of exchange are in general terms usually called remitters.
1844 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Dec. 616/2 The amount returned was..sufficient to..induce remitters rather to pay more for specie, than to run the risk of bills being returned.
1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 47 The premium is so high, that remitters will become indifferent whether they buy bills or send gold.
1884 Law Times Rep. 51 390/1 As regards those remittances..the remitters were entitled to have them specifically appropriated.
1903 Michigan Law Rev. 1 507 The subagent may retain such paper and apply it to the reduction of the pre-existing indebtedness of the remitter.
1960 Econ. Jrnl. 70 632 They were payments to keep the rest of the family going in Europe and would have all been spent in Argentina, had the rest of the family accompanied the remitter.
2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 May (Central ed.) a8/1 About two-thirds of all migrants born in Latin American [sic] are regular remitters, and most migrants don't begin sending money back until they are well-established in their new home.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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