REMAND

Remand

The remand or detention of a suspect is the process of keeping a person who has been arrested in custody, normally in a remand prison. The word "remand" is used generally in common law jurisdictions to describe pre-trial detention, other legal systems use varying terms and phrases, such as "Häktning" in Sweden. Pre-trial detention differs fundamentally from post-adjudicatory detention, or imprisonment.

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remand

Noun

  1. The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
  2. The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.

Verb

  1. To send a prisoner back to custody.
  2. To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
  3. To send back.


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