Etymology From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).
Law To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed; to quitclaim.
remise
noun
Etymology From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).
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LawObsolete A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.
remise
noun
Etymology From French remise.
1
Historical A house for covered carriages; a chaise house.
long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
[T]his technique implied the existence of garages specializing in "stage-automobile" operations, but I never could discover the remises he used […].1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
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Obsolete A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise.
[H]e actually departed from Paris with two or three gentlemen of his acquaintance, who had hired a Remise for a jaunt to Versailles; and having accompanied them as far as the village of Passé, returned in the dusk of the evening on foot.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC: