Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Remittitur \Re*mit"ti*tur\ (-t?-t?r), n. [L., (it) is remitted.]
   (Law)
      (a) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a
          remission of excess of damages.
      (b) A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a
          superior to an inferior court. --Wharton.