\Re*mit"ter\ (-t?r), n.
1. One who remits. Specifically:
   (a) One who pardons.
   (b) One who makes remittance.

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.
   --Bouvier.