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Remand

noun

The act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial).

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"Remand" Quotes from Famous Books

... only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom. When a prisoner first leaves his cell he cannot bear the light of day: he is unable to discriminate colors, or recognize faces. But the remedy is, not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom him to the rays of the sun. The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become blind in the house of bondage. But, let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it. In a few years men ...

— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks

... and the examination before the magistrate ended in a remand—Mrs. Zebedee being in no condition to understand the proceedings in either case. The surgeon reported her to be completely prostrated by a terrible nervous shock. When he was asked if he considered her to have been a sane woman ...

— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins

... old heathen systems. According to Hindu as well as Buddhist philosophy, this retrograde process might not only carry civilized man back to savagery, but might place him again in the category of brutes. If tendencies control all things and have no limit, why might they not remand the human being to lower and lower forms, until he should reach again the status ...

— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood

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