noun
definition
The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
definition
The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
verb
definition
To send a prisoner back to custody.
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To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
definition
To send back.
Examples of remand in a Sentence
The remand prisons are much better than the situation at the camp.
Can I register if I am a remand prisoner?
One in eight breaches led to a custodial remand.
The Bench retired to consult and they decided to grant remand for a fortnight.
They can be bailed with or without conditions or remanded in custody to a prison or remand center.
Visitors to remand prisoners do not require a Visiting order to attend.
Finally the Judge must decide whether to remand the person in bail or in custody.
In 2002 the average age of a remand prisoner was 29.
This practice suggests that the power of remand for assessment may not be of practical value.
Audrey's mentally-ill son Christopher was kicked to death by his paranoid schizophrenic cellmate while on remand in Chelmsford prison in 1994.
Soham caretaker Ian Huntley, 28, accused of killing schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, is being held there on remand.
Bail 39 A court can remand a defendant in custody, or can grant bail, with or without conditions.
Target 25% of bail and remand hearings in respect of young offenders to be conducted by live video link.
The remand population pushes the number to twelve thousand.
I was in and out of remand home so many times, she had me put into care.
As a chaplain, I was asked to testify as a character witness for a forty year old man on remand.
In the year 1848 he was a Whig member of the state senate, an d from 1849 to 1853 was United States marshal for Massachusetts, in which capacity he was called upon in 1851 to remand the fugitive slave, Thomas Sims, to slavery.