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Meaning of REMISE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Re*mise"\, n.
    1. A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. --Sterne.
    2. A livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary
       fiacre; -- so called because kept in a remise. --Cooper.
    
  2. \Re*mise"\ (r?-m?z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Remised}
    (-m?zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Remising}.] [F. remise delivery,
    surrender, fr. remettre to put back, deliver, L. remittere.
    See {Remit}.]
    To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to
    resign or surrender by deed; to return. --Blackstone.
    
  3. \Re*mise"\, n. (Law)
    A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of
    a claim.
    
 
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