Return (law)
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Return is a report to a judge by police on the implementation of an arrest or search warrant. Also, a report to a judge in reply to a subpoena, civil or criminal.
return is also a computer programming keyword, which tells a function, subroutine or method to stop running and "return" control to its caller. In Java and most other languages, no other lines of programming code may follow a return statement, since they could not possibly be executed. The typical compiler therefore labels this a coding error. But in PHP it is allowed.