remitter

remitter definition - legal

n

  1. The principle by which a person holding two titles to property and enters upon it by the lesser, or more defective, title is restored to the earlier or better title.
  2. Someone who sends a payment to another.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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