Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who appeals a court decision.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Appealing; relating to appeals; appellate.
  • noun In law: One who appeals or removes a cause from a lower to a higher tribunal.
  • noun One who prosecutes another for a crime, such as felony or treason.
  • noun One who looks to any tribunal for corroboration or vindication.
  • noun One who challenges or summons another to single combat.
  • noun Eccles., one of the French clergy who, in the Jansenist controversy, rejected the bull Unigenitus, issued in 1713 by Pope Clement XI. against Quesnel's “Réflexions morales sur le Nouveau Testament,” and appealed to the pope “better informed,” or to a general council.
  • noun One who appeals or presents a request.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Relating to an appeal; appellate.
  • adjective (Law) the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee.
  • noun obsolete One who accuses another of felony or treason.
  • noun One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.
  • noun obsolete A challenger.
  • noun (Eccl. Hist.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.
  • noun One who appeals or entreats.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective law of or relating to appeals
  • noun law a litigant or party that is making an appeal in court.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the party who appeals a decision of a lower court
  • adjective of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, one who makes a charge in court, plaintiff, from Old French apelant, from present participle of apeler, to appeal; see appeal.]

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Anglo-Norman, from Old French apelant

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Examples

  • The 76-year-old appellant is married and the father of two minors.

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  • The evidence disclosed that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was the sole manufacturer of the tobacco, and that this company manufactured the identical plug which contained the rotten toe; the tobacco in question was sold by the manufacturer to the other defendant, the Corr-Williams Company, and resold by the latter company to a retailer in Jackson, and was bought by appellant from the retailer.

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  • The facts, as presented, suggest that the appellant was the unwitting user of counterfeit currency.

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  • The driver of the van, later identified as appellant, pulled up to the entrance of the building and rolled down her window.

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  • In relation to the sentence of Turner it is said that there was an insufficient basis for concluding that the appellant was a dangerous offender for the purposes of imposing an extended sentence, and secondly, that there was unfair disparity between two sentences that of Mr Turner and that of his co-accused, and thirdly, that the custodial element of the sentence was too long.

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  • In this case, the appellant was the Government of Alberta that suddenly had images of paying an allowance to every twenty- thirty- and forty-something couch potato in the province who “failed to launch”.

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  • In this case, the appellant was the Government of Alberta that suddenly had images of paying an allowance to every twenty- thirty- and forty-something couch potato in the province who “failed to launch”.

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  • There were only a small minority who had demonstrated a change for the better and gone on to lead lawful and purposeful lives and he strongly believed that the appellant was a changed person who had realised the gravity of his index offence and if given a chance would prove himself worthy of trust.

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  • There were only a small minority who had demonstrated a change for the better and gone on to lead lawful and purposeful lives and he strongly believed that the appellant was a changed person who had realised the gravity of his index offence and if given a chance would prove himself worthy of trust.

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  • The appellant was the plaintiff in an individual action in New York who became a member of the class and objected.

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