remand
verbEtymology 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”). Compare countermand.
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Law To send a prisoner back to custody.
- Mr. Goodstein has described the majority of leaders of the gay movement as "neurotics" who should be remanded to the "counseling couches where they belong."1976 February 7, “A Liberation Publication?”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 5:
- 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.2019, Martin Wasik, Core Statutes on Criminal Justice and Sentencing 2019-20, page 74:
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- 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.2024 March 7, “Daniela Klette of Baader-Meinhof gang remanded in custody”, in The Guardian, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:
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Law To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
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Obsolete To send back.
- Remand it to its former place.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- Derived terms
- on remand, remandable, remandee, remandment, unremanded