remanded
Americanadjective
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sent back or consigned again, as for revision.
A remanded proposal that fails to achieve a 60% majority of votes when reconsidered shall be removed from further consideration.
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Law.
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relating to or being a case sent back to a lower court from which it was appealed.
We trust that the facts of the parties' relationship will become clearer during the remanded hearing.
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(of a prisoner or accused person) sent back into custody, as to await further proceedings.
A remanded person awaiting trial at the city’s central prison has complained of overcrowding and poor sanitation.
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Love was remanded in custody and the court was told a sentencing hearing would likely take place in September.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
Owen Godfrey Membe has pleaded not guilty to a charge of animal cruelty and has been remanded in custody until 27 May.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
They have been remanded in custody until a plea hearing on 28 August.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Millar was remanded in custody until his sentencing.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
He was led away to be locked in Martin’s museum—in what used to be the sacristy and was now the island’s makeshift jail cell—until he could be remanded to police on the mainland.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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