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Appellate   /əpˈɛlɪt/  /əpˈɛlˌeɪt/   Listen
Appellate

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals).  Synonym: appellant.



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"Appellate" Quotes from Famous Books



... all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the ...
— Diary in America, Series Two • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State should be a party, the Supreme Court was vested with original jurisdiction, while in all the other enumerated cases its jurisdiction was to be appellate. With the exceptions of suits against a State by individuals, which were excluded by the Eleventh Amendment, the judicial power of the United States remains to-day as it was ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI • John Lord

... the continent, and particularly in France, as the writer of this note learned from the conversation of M. De Tocqueville, the judicial tribunals do not deem themselves bound by any precedents, or by any decisions of their predecessors or of the appellate tribunals. They respect such decisions as the opinions of distinguished men, and they pay no higher regard to their own previous adjudications of any case. It is not easy to perceive how the law can acquire any stability under such a system, ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al

... came into collision with the English on a case of appellate jurisdiction, but they were soon taught their true position, and with becoming submission deferred to their fate. The Irish Parliament had long been such merely in name; and the only power they were allowed to exercise freely, was that of making oppressive and unjust ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack



Words linked to "Appellate" :   appellate court, appellant, law, jurisprudence, appeal



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