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Adjourn vs Remand - What's the difference?

adjourn | remand |

As verbs the difference between adjourn and remand

is that adjourn is to postpone while remand is to send a prisoner back to custody.

As a noun remand is

the act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.

adjourn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To postpone.
    • The trial was adjourned for a week.
  • To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
  • * Barrow
    • It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
  • To end or suspend an event.
    • The court will adjourn for lunch.
  • (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.
    • After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.

    See also

    * adjournment

    remand

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • * South
    • Remand it to its former place.

    Derived terms

    * on remand * remandment

    References