核心畫面

Picture the courtroom door swinging the other way. Someone, or something, has been brought in front of the court, and the court's answer this time is not a final decision but `go back and wait`. The person goes back to a cell, or back home under rules, until the trial day. The case goes back down to the court it came from. `Remand` is that sending-back order, and the noun is either the waiting it creates or the send-back itself.

可以想成法庭上把東西往回推的動作。有人,或有一個案子,送到法官面前。法官這次不給最後結論,只說「先回去」。人被送回去更多收起可以想成法庭上把東西往回推的動作。有人,或有一個案子,送到法官面前。法官這次不給最後結論,只說「先回去」。人被送回去等開庭那天,關著等或交保回家等。案子被送回原本那個法院,再處理一次。remand 就是這個「退回去」的命令。名詞的 remand,指的不是等待的那段時間,就是「退回去」這件事本身。

From the word’s history

The packet traces remand through Middle English and Middle French to Late Latin remandare, built on re- (back) and mandare (to order) — literally to order something back. That is still precisely what a court does with it, whether what goes back is a person or a case.

字源資料顯示 remand 經由中古英文和中古法文,來自晚期拉丁文 remandare,由 re-(回去)和 mandare(命令)組成,字面就是「下令送回去」。command、demand 跟它同一個字根。今天法院做的事,還是這個動作:送回去的可能是人,也可能是案子。

Wiktionary entry for remand (kaikki extract supplied in this packet: From Middle English remaunden, from Middle French remander, from Late Latin remandare (to send backward), from Latin remandare (to order). Compare countermand.)

From the picture

把案子送回下級法院

同樣是「退回去」的動作,只是這次退的不是人,是案子。

verb · C1

When a higher court remands a case, it sends the case back down to the lower court that heard it first, so that court can deal with it again.

發回下級法院

Also in this word

verb · C1

When a court remands someone, it sends them away from the courtroom to wait for their trial, either keeping them in prison or letting them go home under rules.

裁定羈押候審

noun · C1

The time that a person spends in prison waiting for their trial, before any court has decided whether they are guilty.

候審羈押(期間)