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Remand vs Adjournment - What's the difference?

remand | adjournment |

As nouns the difference between remand and adjournment

is that remand is the act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial while adjournment is the state of being adjourned.

As a verb remand

is to send a prisoner back to custody.

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

    adjournment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being adjourned.
    • Adjournment didn't come a minute too soon for those of us who needed the toilet.
  • The action of adjourning.
    • At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.
  • (rhetoric) Ampliatio.

    • See also

    * ("adjournment" on Wikipedia)