appellate court

Noun

Meaning

a court whose jurisdiction is to review decisions of lower courts or agencies

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

court of appeals appeals court court of appeal chancery high court family court assizes circuit court appellate jurisdiction appeal board circuit court of appeals court of second instance appeal tribunal appellate courts appeal panel
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Hypernyms

court judicature tribunal

Hyponyms

circuit court of appeals

Examples

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it. William O. Douglas

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change. Johnnie Cochran

POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor. Ambrose Bierce

After the ruling, the members of the appellate court told Assing that his sentence would be reduced to 24 years and his conviction for murder would be substituted for manslaughter. Source: Internet

Aggrieved by the death sentence, Sanda approached the appellate court, seeking to upturn the judgment. Source: Internet

Also, where the appellate court undertakes judicial review of compulsory arbitration proceedings that were required by statute, the reviewing court must conduct a de novo review of the interpretation and application of the law by the arbitrators. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

appellate authority appellate capacity appellate claims court appellate courts appellate instance appellate jurisdiction