remand

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879)

Definitions from Case Law

From 305 U.S. 364 - Ford Motor Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · 1939Most cited · 766 citing opinions

The 'remand' does not encroach upon administrative functions. It means simply that the case is returned to the administrative body in order that it may take further action in accordance with the applicable law.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

To send back. Of Prisoner. The ordering of a prisoner's return to custody pending proceedings, or on a determination that he is not entitled to release. Of a Cause. The sending it back to the same court out of which it came, for the purpose of having some action on it there. March, 100.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To order a prisoner’s return to custody; to send a cause back to the court whence it came for further proceedings therein.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

When a prisoner is brought before a judge on a habeas corpus, for the purpose of obtaining his liberty, the Judge hears the case, and either discharges him or not; when there is cause for his detention, he remands him. REMANDING A* CAUSE. The sending it back to the same court out of which it came, for the purpose of having some action on it there. March 100. See Removal of Causes. REMANENT PRO DEFECTU EMPT0R- UM (Lat. remanent, they remain, pro defects, through lack, emptorum, of buyers). The return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution when he has not been able to sell the property seized, that the same remains unsold for want of buyers; in that case the plaintiff is entitled to a venditioni exponas. Com. Dig. Execution (C 8). REMAN ET (Lat.). The causes which are entered for trial, and which cannot be tried during the term, are remanets. l Sell. Pr. 434; 1 Phill. Ev. 4.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To remand a prisoner, after a preliminary or partial hearing before a court or magistrate, is to send him back to custody, to be kept until the hearing is resumed or the trial comes on. To remand a case, brought into an appellate court or removed from one court into another, is to send it back to the court from which it came, that further proceedings In the case, if any, may be taken there.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

To send back; to recommit; to send an accused person back to prison after a partial hearing, to await proceedings; to send a cause taken on appeal or error to an appellate court back to the court below.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

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.