remand

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For these reasons, I respectfully dissent. "(emphasis added)" I believe that a remand is a wasteful expenditure of judicial resources and an unnecessary and uninvited burden on the parties.

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  1. transitive verb To send or order back.
  2. transitive verb Law To send back to custody.
  3. transitive verb Law To send back (a case) to a lower court with instructions about further proceedings.

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  • Sanding down the plaintiff's first argument for remand, the court held that CAFA applies to the plaintiff's re-filed action because the case was commenced in 2008 rather than 2002. —  Class Action Fairness Act Blog
  • Actually if they are in remand, they are only alleged killers. —  Winnipeg Sun
  • On remand, the Court suggested that Mills could retain title as the survivor of the joint tenancy as long as Mills rectified the duty she owed to the decedent to equally fund the house. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • On remand, the DHS submitted several documents designed to explain the purpose of a laissez-passer, and argued that the document did not establish identity and nationality, but rather was "simply the granting of the authorization for an alien to travel to or from that country." —  Planet OpenID
  • If need be the alleged agent would be brought to Dehradun on transit remand, the sources said. —  The Times of India
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  1. Middle English remaunden, from Old French remander, from Late Latin remandāre, to send back word : Latin re-, re- + Latin mandāre, to order; see man-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from late Middle English remanden, from Old French remander, send for again, French remander =Spanish remandar, order several times, =Italian rimandare, from Latin remandare, send back word. from re-, back, + mandare, enjoin, send word: see mandate.
  2. from remand, v.
 

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