remittur of record

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remittur of record - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  REMITTUR OF RECORD. After a record has been removed to the supreme court, 
  and a judgment has been rendered, it is to be remitted or sent back to the 
  court below, for the purpose of re-trying the cause, when the judgment has 
  been reversed, or of issuing an execution when it has been affirmed. The act 
  of so returning the record, and the writ issued for that purpose, bear the 
  name of remittitur.