Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Remittitur

Remittitur (-t?-t?r) , noun

[Latin, (it) is remitted.]

(a)
(Law) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages.
(b)
(Law) A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a superior to an inferior court. — Wharton