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Appellant   Listen
noun
Appellant  n.  
1.
(Law)
(a)
One who accuses another of felony or treason. (Obs.)
(b)
One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.
2.
A challenger. (Obs.)
3.
(Eccl. Hist.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.
4.
One who appeals or entreats.






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"Appellant" Quotes from Famous Books



... registrar to transmit a copy of all proceedings of the inferior courts; and it directs the party who has obtained the sentence to appear before the superior tribunal to answer to the appeal. On applying for the inhibition, security is given on the part of the appellant to the amount of two hundred pounds, to answer costs, in case it should appear to the Court of Appeal that the appeal is vexatious. The inhibition is to be served upon the judge, the registrar, and the adverse party, and his proctor, by shewing the instrument under ...
— The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping • H. Byerley Thomson

... Ton enkephalon].] Literally "the brain." Dulcis medulla earum [palmarum] in cacumine, quod cerebrum appellant. Plin. H. N. xiii. 4. See also Theophr. ii. 8; Galen. de Fac. simpl. Medic. iv. 15. It is generally interpreted medulla, "marrow" or "pith," but it is in reality a sort of bud at the top of the palm-tree, containing the last tender leaves, with flowers, and continuing in that state two ...
— The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis • Xenophon

... It is said that the work, named "Plumarium," was made by the needle; and the Greeks, from the variety of the threads, called it "Polymitum." "Plumarium dicitur opus acu factum quod Graeci a licionum varietate multiplici polymitarium appellant."—Robert Stephan. "Thesaurus Linguae Latinae," ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... Ab eo, quod est ago et egi, verba sunt quae appellant grammatici frequentativa, actito et actitavi. Haec quosdam non sane indoctos viros audio ita pronuntiare ut primam in his litteram corripiant; rationemque dicant, quoniam in verbo principali, quod est ago, prima littera breviter pronuntiatur. ...
— The Roman Pronunciation of Latin • Frances E. Lord

... shall be held by the employer as a set-off for so much against the wages of said deserting employee; provided that said arrested party, after being so returned home, may appeal to a justice of the peace, or a member of the Board of Police, who shall summarily try whether said appellant is legally employed by ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine



Words linked to "Appellant" :   plaintiff in error, appeal, appellate, law, litigator



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