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remitter

noun/rɪˈmɪtə/

C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The restoration of a person to an earlier and better title to land they already hold under a defective one.

By operation of remitter, the heir was treated as holding under the older and stronger title.

Topic: Property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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