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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmɑːnd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈmænd/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnd, -ænd

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remand (countable and uncountable, plural remands)

1. The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
   • 1983 December 31, Gary Phillips, “Gays in Gaol [Jail]: Who Cares”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 15:

     On arrest and unable to obtain bail, could mean that a person may be held in remand prison for six months or more.

   • 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 […]

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, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     Remand it to its former place.

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