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remand

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From Middle English remaunden (“to send back”), from Middle French remander (“to send back”), from Late Latin remandare (“to send backward”), from Latin remandare (“to order”).

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remand (countable and uncountable, plural remands)

  1. The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
    • 2007, Andrew Ewang Sone, Readings in the Cameroon Criminal Procedure Code, page 139:
      As earlier stated, remand in custody under the new Code is an exceptional measure.
  2. The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
    • 2010, Steven Baicker-McKee, John B. Corr, A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, page 102:
      If remand is based on a failure of federal subject matter jurisdiction or a shortcoming in the process of removal, the remand becomes effective even earlier […]

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remand (third-person singular simple present remands, present participle remanding, simple past and past participle remanded)

  1. To send a prisoner back to custody.[1][2]
    • 2019, Martin Wasik, Core Statutes on Criminal Justice and Sentencing 2019-20, page 74:
      The number of days for which the offender was remanded in custody in connection with the offence or a related offence is to count as time served by the offender as part of the sentence.
    • 2024 March 7, “Daniela Klette of Baader-Meinhof gang remanded in custody”, in The Guardian‎[3], sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:
      A former member of the radical anti-capitalist Baader-Meinhof gang arrested in Berlin last week after 30 years on the run has been remanded in custody over three violent attacks in the 1990s.
  2. To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
  3. (obsolete) To send back.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
      Remand it to its former place.

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  1. ^ A modern legal definition includes the possibility of bail being granted, so in the United Kingdom at least, this does not necessarily imply custody: “Bail Act 1976”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], www.opsi.gov.uk, 2010 April 2 (last accessed)
  2. ^ In the Republic of Ireland a defendant can be remanded on bail for a period of more than 8 days if the defendant and the prosecution agree. The defendant can be released on bail but must return to court on a specified date known as the remand date.“Detention after arrest”, in CitizensInformation.ie‎[2], (Can we date this quote?)

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