"Return" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

The act of a sheriff, con-stable, or other ministerial oflicer, in de-llvering back to the court a writ, notice, or other paper, which he was required to serve or execute, with a brief account of hls do-lngs under the mandate, the time and mode of service or execution, or his failure to accomplish It, as the case may he. Also the indorsement made by the officer upon the writ or other paper, stating what he has done under it, the time and mode of service, etc

To bat (the ball) back over the net.

To render, as an account, usually an official account,
to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to
return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of
an election.

To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to
return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.

An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the
commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for
duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions,
etc.

To report, or bring back and make known.

To revert; to pass back into possession.

An answer; as, a return to one's question.

The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the
same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution;
as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return
in tennis.

To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

To convey into official custody, or to a general
depository.

To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office,
with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or
condition.

To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.

To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a
borrowed book, or a hired horse.

A day in bank. See Return day, below.

To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.

Hence, to elect according to the official report of the
election officers.

The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or
execution, to the proper officer or court.

The continuation in a different direction, most often at a
right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a
molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the
longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of
twenty feet north and south.

The sending back of a commission with the certificate of
the commissioners.

The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the
same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return
of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.

To give in requital or recompense; to requite.

To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular
or irregular; to appear again.

The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an
investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.

The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in
execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.

A payment; a remittance; a requital.

To repay; as, to return borrowed money.

That which is returned.

The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.

An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a
duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election
returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially,
in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general
information.

To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to
return thanks.