Appellate

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  • adjective. Of or relating to the review of a decision of a lower court by a higher court.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To call by a name; call; name; entitle.
  • Pertaining to appeals; having cognizance of appeals: as, an appellate court.
  • noun. A person appealed or prosecuted for a crime; an appellee.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals.
  • adjective. a court having cognizance of appeals.
  • noun. A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See appellee.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals)
  • Word Usage
    "In In re Antrobus, the Tenth Circuit rejected carefully reasoned decisions from the Second and Ninth Circuits and held that crime victims could only obtain appellate relief if they show that the district court had made a “clear and indisputable” error."
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    appellee