Meaning & use
Remanet
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A legal case that has been postponed and remains to be heard at a later sitting of the court.
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Because of the overloaded docket, the assault case became a remanet held over to the next term.
The barrister was relieved when her contentious trial was listed as a remanet rather than heard that week.
A note on using this word
"Remanet" is Latin for "it remains," and the term survives chiefly in British and Commonwealth court practice.
Words with a similar meaning
holdover case
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