Remand
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
1.
The recommittal of an accused person to prison, or his readmission to bail, on the adjournment of the hearing of a criminal charge in a police court. It is used as verb and noun. When an accused is sent back, after a partial hearing, to await other proceedings, collection of further evidence, &c., the magistrate is said to remand him; also, the order of recommitment is called a remand.
2.
Moreover, when a cause, having been removed from one tribunal to another, as from a state court to a circuit court of the United States, is found by the latter to be improperly before it, and is ordered back, it is said to be remanded.