A person or entity that acquits or releases another from a debt, obligation, or legal charge.
From Old French aquiteur, one who pays or settles. The -er suffix indicates an agent noun, showing the person performing the action of acquitting.
While acquitter isn't commonly used today, it survives in legal and historical texts as a term for whoever does the acquitting—juries are the modern-day acquitters in criminal court, giving ordinary citizens extraordinary power.
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