Convict vs Remand - What's the difference?
convict | remand |
To find guilty
# as a result of legal proceedings, about of a crime
# informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act.
(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A person deported to a penal colony.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
To send a prisoner back to custody.A modern legal definition includes the possibility of bail being granted, so in the United Kingdom at least, this does not necessarily imply custody: '>citation
To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
(obsolete) To send back.
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As verbs the difference between convict and remand
is that convict is to find guilty while remand is to send a prisoner back to custodya modern legal definition includes the possibility of bail being granted, so in the united kingdom at least, this does not necessarily imply custody: .As nouns the difference between convict and remand
is that convict is (legal) a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body while remand is the act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.convict
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Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (legal crime) sentence * (informal) disapproveNoun
(wikipedia convict) (en noun)Synonyms
* (person convicted of crime) assigned servant, con, government man, public servant * (person deported to a penal colony) penal colonistDerived terms
* con (synonym)remand
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Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Remand it to its former place.
