To remand a prisoner, after a preliminary or partial hearing before a court or magistrate, is to send him back to custody, to be kept until the hearing is resumed or the trial comes on. To remand a case, brought into an appellate court or removed from one court into another, is to send it back to the court from which it came, that further proceedings In the case, if any, may be … [Read more...] about REMAND
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REMANDING A CAUSE
practice. The sending it back to the same court out of which it came for the purpose of having some action on it there. March, R. 100. … [Read more...] about REMANDING A CAUSE
REMANENT PRO DEFECTU EMPTORUM
In practice. The return made by the sheriff to a writ of execution when he has not been able to sell the property seized, that the same remains unsold for want of buyers. … [Read more...] about REMANENT PRO DEFECTU EMPTORUM
REMANENTIA
In old English law. A remainder. Spelman. A perpetuity, or perpetual estate. Glan. lib. 7, c 1. … [Read more...] about REMANENTIA
RELIEVE
In feudal law, relieve is to depend; thus, the seigniory of a tenant in capite relieves of the crown, meaning that the tenant holds of the crown. The term la not common in English writers. Sweet … [Read more...] about RELIEVE
