transitive. Law. To give up, surrender, transfer, or release (a right, property, etc.). Also: to release (a person) from an obligation, etc…

Law. To give up (letters patent, tithes) into the hands of the sovereign. (Cf. surrender, n. 1b.)

transitive. To forgive or remit (a debt); to surrender or give up (a claim, right, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To refrain from insisting upon, give up (a privilege, right, claim, etc.); to forbear to claim or demand.

transitive. Law. = remise, v.1 1. Chiefly in legal formulas.