| v. t. | 1. | To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return. |
| n. | 1. | (Law) A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim. |
| 1. | A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. | |
| 2. | A livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; - so called because kept in a remise. |
REMISE. A French word which literally means a surrendering or returning a
debt or duty.
2. It is frequently used in this sense in releases; as, "remise,
release and forever quit-claim." In the French law the word remise is
synonymous with our word release. Poth. Du Contr. de Change, n. 176; Dalloz,
Dict, h.t.; Merl. Rep. h.t.