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Remand   /rɪmˈænd/   Listen
Remand

verb
(past & past part. remanded; pres. part. remanding)
1.
Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision.  Synonyms: remit, send back.
2.
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.  Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars.  "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"






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"Remand" Quotes from Famous Books



... hatter, living on the means brought with him from America. The magistrate was about disposing summarily of the case, by sentencing the men to a few days' imprisonment, when a detective officer applied for a remand, on the ground that he had reason to believe the prisoners were connected with the Fenian conspiracy. The application was granted, and before many hours had elapsed it was ascertained that Martin Williams was no other than Colonel Thomas J. Kelly, one of the most prominent of the (O'Mahony-Stephens) ...
— The Dock and the Scaffold • Unknown

... not in a position to prove what you state," Mr. Simmonds said, "we have nothing to do but to remand the case until this day week. I may say that I have received a letter from Dr. Green saying that he and Mr. Porson are ready to become your bail to any amount; but we could not think of accepting bail in ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty

... monarch sit idle in his chair, playing umpire in the conflicts of the Greeks, and bribing their popular leaders. But these great thoughts were interrupted by unhappy news from Sparta; Epicydidas is from thence sent to remand him home, to assist his own country, which was then ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough



Words linked to "Remand" :   challenge, return, jail, send back, detain, jurisprudence, confine, law, gaol



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