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remand
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Definition:1. to send the defendant back to their cell.2. to toss the case back to the lower court for review
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Had I been remanded to my dungeon, to await the next sacrifice, which would not take place for many months? This I at once saw could not be. Victims had been in immediate demand.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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since the legislative act of 1850, when she heard, with perfect surprise and consternation, Christian and humane people actually recommending the remanding escaped fugitives into slavery, as a duty binding on good citizens, [...] she could only think, These men and Christians cannot know what slavery is; if they did, such a question could never be open for discussion.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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"[...] There are enough defects in the verdict to insure either a reversal or a remand."
"What's a remand?"
John Grisham. The Pelican Brief, p.264 (1992)
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—How did that Canada swindle case go off? says Joe. —Remanded, says J. J.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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your request is granted then—for the time. I will remand the order I despatched to my banker.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre
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