Hand down

Fables are handed down from age to age.

Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged.

The jury handed down a verdict of guilty.

Justice James A. Burke, who presided over the trial in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, could have sentenced Mr. Weinstein to as little as five years, but he heeded the arguments of prosecutors who urged him to hand down a long sentence.

UN experts alarmed by sentences handed down to human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa on lèse-majesté charges

The Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision.

When my older brother grows out of his clothes, he hands them down to me.