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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

remittitur

1. The process by which a court reduces or proposes to reduce the damages awarded in a jury verdict. 2. A court's order reducing an award of damages <the defendant sought a remittitur of the $100 million judgment>. Cf. ADDITUR.

remittitur of record.

The action of sending the transcript of a case back from an appellate court to a trial court; the notice for doing so. remittor. See REMITTER (3),