Definition of "remand" []

• To send or order back. (verb-transitive)
• Law To send back to custody. (verb-transitive)
• Law To send back (a case) to a lower court with instructions about further proceedings. (verb-transitive)

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• "Could it be an order sending a case back to a previous court nisi prius, if you will similar to the use of the term remand in those situations?"
• "Mr Cash said, Jack has sought love to overcome his grief at the loss of Jade, and while in remand has had a whirlwind courtship with his new love, his cellmate armed robber 'Reamer' McGee on C Block."
• "Presumably even a substantially revamped CSRT, on remand from the D.C. Circuit, would not issue revised detention decisions for quite some time -- to be followed by yet further D.C. Circuit review."