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remand definition - legal

v

  1. To send back for further consideration; an appeals court may remand a case back to the lower court for further action or for a new trial;
  2. To send a prisoner back to custody after denying a plea for bail.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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