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Definition of Appellate
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals). "Appellate court"
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Partainyms: Appeal, Appeal
Derivative terms: Appeal, Appeal, Appellant
Definition of Appellate
1. a. Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals.
2. n. A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.
Definition of Appellate
1. Adjective. That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Appellate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appellate
Literary usage of Appellate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William M. Lacy (1889)
"The Supreme Court was [as said above] also clothed by the Constitution (b) "with
appellate jurisdiction, both as to law [ * 299] and fact, ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"Question : Why not allow the appellate judicatory to have for its decrees any
... The proper point of view for the appellate judicatory to contemplate the ..."
3. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert (1914)
"JURISDICTION OF appellate COURTS. § 24. Jurisdiction of appellate Courts.— a The
Supreme Court of the United States, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"In such a case it is the only way to make the appeal effectual and to carry out
the purposes of the law investing the court with appellate jurisdiction ..."
5. An Introduction to the Constitutional Law of the United States: Especially by John Norton Pomeroy, Edmund Hatch Bennett (1886)
"In relation to its nature, jurisdiction of all kinds is either original or appellate.
All the courts which exercise any power to administer a remedy, ..."
6. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert (1907)
"Analogous provisions: In US: As to appellate jurisdiction, Act of 1867. SI 9,
24, RS, §8 4980, 4981, 4982, 4983, 4984, 4985, 4989; Act of 1841, i 4; ..."
7. Mediation and Conference Programs in the Federal Courts of Appeals: A by Robert J. Niemic (1997)
"The program is an established part of the appellate process in the court.
Cases are referred to the program by the Legal Division of the Clerk's Office of ..."
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