different between adjourn vs remand

English

Etymology

From Old French ajorner (French ajourner), from the phrase a jor (nomé) ("to an (appointed) day").

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??d??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d???n/

Verb

adjourn (third-person singular simple present adjourns, present participle adjourning, simple past and past participle adjourned)

1. (transitive) To postpone.

2. (transitive) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of delaying Repentance (sermon)

     It is a common practice […] to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.

3. (intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
   • 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 10, pp. 25-26,^[1]

     The Form of this motion is, “When this assembly adjourns, it adjourns to meet at such a time.”

4. (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move as a group from one place to another.

Translations

Related terms

• adjournment

Anagrams

• Jourdan

English

Etymology

From Middle English remaunden (“to send back”), from Middle French remander (“to send back”), from Late Latin remandare (“to send backward”), from Latin remandare (“to order”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???m??nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???mænd/
• Rhymes: -??nd, -ænd

Noun

remand (countable and uncountable, plural remands)

1. The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
   • 2007, Andrew Ewang Sone, Readings in the Cameroon Criminal Procedure Code, p. 139:

     As earlier stated, remand in custody under the new Code is an exceptional measure.

2. The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
   • 2010, Steven Baicker-McKee, John B. Corr, A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, p. 102:

     If remand is based on a failure of federal subject matter jurisdiction or a shortcoming in the process of removal, the remand becomes effective even earlier […]

Translations

Verb

remand (third-person singular simple present remands, present participle remanding, simple past and past participle remanded)

1. To send a prisoner back to custody.

   • Charged with Linda Cook's murder, he was remanded in custody at Winchester Prison the same month. Murder_of_Linda_Cook

2. To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
3. (obsolete) To send back.

   • Remand it to its former place.

Derived terms

• on remand
• remandment

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References

Anagrams

• Erdman, Mander, Marden, Menard, Redman, damner, mander, manred, mrenda, randem, red man, redman