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Definition of Appellate court
1. Noun. A court whose jurisdiction is to review decisions of lower courts or agencies.
Generic synonyms: Court, Judicature, Tribunal
Specialized synonyms: Circuit Court Of Appeals
Definition of Appellate court
1. Noun. (legal) A court having jurisdiction to hear appeals and review a lower court's decisions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appellate Court
Literary usage of Appellate court
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The action of the appellate court on reversal, is not required by each law to be
the same. The earlier law confers discretion to proceed to a final judgment ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Those orders of the appellate court were not executed, but the unsuccessful party
immediately dismissed their bill of complaint to enjoin the appellants ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"The rule stated in the above case, that an appellate court has implied or inherent
jurisdiction to allow temporary alimony and suit money in a divorce suit ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"have large room for discretion on this subject, and I think an appellate court
should seldom interfere with its exercise." In that case Is was held that the ..."
5. Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California by California Supreme Court, Bancroft-Whitney Company, California, Supreme Court (1887)
"And the appellate Court cannot entertain jurisdiction to inquire into any ...
A mandamus cannot be awarded by a mere appellate Court, except to revise and ..."
6. Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law by John William Burgess (1891)
"criminal court for the trial of peers, as general court of impeachment, and as
highest appellate court in the United Kingdom. As criminal court for the ..."
7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1910)
"... held, and determined by the supreme or other final appellate court of such
state as the successor of said territorial supreme court and appellate court, ..."
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