remanet
(ˈrɛmənɛt)
Also 6 remaneth.
[L., 3rd sing. pres. indic. of remanēre to remain.]
1. A remainder.
| 1511 Househ. Bk. Dk. Northumbld. (1770) 2 Divers Vitalls and Stuffs remaynynge.., as it aperith more playnly by a bill of the same Remaneth signed with my hand. 1540 Churchw. Acc. St. Giles, Reading (ed. Nash) 58 A remanet for broken plate sold viijs. c 1640 J. Smyth Hund. Berkeley (1885) 89 The Remanet paid into the Exchequer is 51s 8d q. by the Collector. 1874 Mrs. H. Wood Mast. Greylands xix. 221 The intimacy..must be a sort of remanet of that friendship, meaning nothing. 1891 H. Matthews in Law Times XCII. 96/1 Convicts serving remanets of former sentences. |
2. Law.
a. A cause or suit of which the hearing is postponed to another day or term.
| a 1734 North Lives (1826) I. 436 For the causes, left one day, are remanets to the next. 1829 Bentham Justice & Cod. Petit. 83 The other part [of suits] remain unheard and are called remanets or remanents. 1870 Daily News 12 Dec., The list contains 111 cases, 28 of which are remanets. |
| attrib. 1829 Bentham Justice & Cod. Petit. 80 If it happens to it to be on the remanet list. 1888 Evening Post 23 Nov. 2/6 The remanet witness had been in the box all the morning. |
b. A parliamentary bill left over till another session.
| 1870 Daily News 22 July 6 The law on the Press..is impudently made a remanet, and will hang over till next session. 1887 Edin. Rev. Jan. 284 The question of ‘remanets’ at the close of each session. |