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Definition of Remand

1. Noun. The act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial).

2. Verb. Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision.

3. Verb. Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail. "They want to remand the prisoners "; "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

Definition of Remand

1. v. t. To recommit; to send back.

2. n. The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.

Definition of Remand

1. Noun. The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial. ¹

2. Noun. The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal. ¹

3. Verb. To send a prisoner back to custody.A modern legal definition includes the possibility of bail being granted, so in the United Kingdom at least, this does not necessarily imply custody: (cite web url= title= Bail Act 1976 publisher=www.opsi.gov.uk accessdate=2010-04-02 ) ¹

4. Verb. To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Remand

1. to send back [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Remand

remaindermen remainders remaine remained remainest remaineth remaining remainings remains remake

remaker remakers remakes remaking reman remand (current term) remanded remanding remandment remandments

remands remanence remanences remanent remanents remanet remanets remanie remanies remanifestation

Literary usage of Remand

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"Still, although the writ of mandamus is not mentioned in the section, yet the use of the words 'such remand shall be immediately carried into execution. ..."

2. A Treatise on Federal Practice, Civil and Criminal: Including Practice in by Roger Foster (1920)
"Order of remand. A formal order remanding the case is customary and is the regular practice.1 It s.eems, however, that such an order is not indispensable, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"«ourt to remand a cause after it once baa refused a motion to that effect. [No. 10 Orig.] Submitted Apr. 17,1Ш. Decided May 8188%. ..."

4. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"Modal defects, such as that the petition for removal was not filed in time, can not be made the basis of a motion to remand unless within a reasonable time, ..."

5. Prison Conditions in the United Kingdom by Allyson Collins, Haywood Burns (1992)
"remand PRISONERS In the British prison system, remand prisoners suffer from the worst ... (Although in the United Kingdom a remand prisoner is technically a ..."

6. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"Notice of Motion to remand. — Where a judgment is reversed on appeal, but no order is made remanding the cause, a motion to remand, three years after the ..."

7. Police Abuse and Killings of Street Children in India by Arvind Ganesan, Patricia Gossman (1996)
"OBSERVATION, remand, SPECIAL, AND JUVENILE HOMES From police custody, ... This means that 11.3 percent of 45 The observation, remand, and juvenile homes all ..."

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