# remand
## English
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹɪˈmɑːnd/
* (General American) IPA: /ɹəˈmænd/
* Rhymes: -ɑːnd, -ænd
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

remand (countable and uncountable, plural remands)
* 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.
* 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 […]

#### Derived terms

* remand centre
* remand home

#### Translations
### Verb

remand (third-person singular simple present remands, present participle remanding, simple past and past participle remanded)
* To send a prisoner back to custody.
** 1976 February 7, “A Liberation Publication?”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 5:Mr. Goodstein has described the majority of leaders of the gay movement as "neurotics" who should be remanded to the "counseling couches where they belong."
** 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, 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.
* To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
* (obsolete) To send back.
** 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:Remand it to its former place.

#### Derived terms

* on remand
* remandee
* remandment

#### Translations

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### References

* ↑ A modern legal definition includes the possibility of bail being granted, so in the United Kingdom at least, this does not necessarily imply custody: “Bail Act 1976”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, www.opsi.gov.uk, 2010 April 2 (last accessed)
* ↑ In the Republic of Ireland a defendant can be remanded on bail for a period of more than 8 days if the defendant and the prosecution agree. The defendant can be released on bail but must return to court on a specified date known as the remand date.“Detention after arrest”, in CitizensInformation.ie‎, (Can we date this quote?)

### Anagrams

* Erdman, Mander, Marden, Menard, Redman, damner, mander, manred, mrenda, randem, red man, redman