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Appeal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior tribunal, as from a common pleas court to a superior or supreme court. Also the right of appeal

2. An accusation; a process instituted by a private person against a man for some hainous crime by which he has been injured, as for murder, larceny, mayhem.

3. A summons to answer to a charge.

4. A call upon a person; a reference to another for proof or decision.

5. In an oath, a person makes an appeal to the Deity for the truth of his declaration.

6. Resort; recourse.

7. Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms.

Appeal [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To refer to a superior judge or court, for the decision of a cause depending, or the revision of a cause decided in a lower court.

2. I appeal to Cesar. Acts 21:1 .

3. To refer to another for the decision of a question controverted, or the counteraction of testimony or facts; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged.

Appeal [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To call or remove a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court. This may be done after trial and judgment in the lower court; or by special statute or agreement, a party may appeal before trial, upon a fictitious issue and judgment. We say the cause was appealed before or after trial.

2. In crimianal law, to charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a criminal prosecution, for some hainous offense; as, to appeal a person of felony. This process was anciently given to a private person to recover the weregild, or private pecuniary satisfaction for an injury he had received by the murder of a relation, or by some personal injury.

Appeal [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

2. To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.

3. To summon; to challenge.

4. To invoke.

5. To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination of for decision.

6. To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request.

7. An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reexamination or review.

8. The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected.

9. The right of appeal.

10. An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public.

11. An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. See Approvement.

12. A summons to answer to a charge.

13. A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty.

14. Resort to physical means; recourse.

Appeal Encyclopedia Britannica

APPEAL, in its usual modern sense, is the act by which a decision is brought for review from an inferior to a superior court In Roman jurisprudence it was used in this and in other significations; it was sometimes equivalent to prosecution, or the calling up of an accused person before a tribunal where the accuser appealed to the protection of the magistrate against injustice or oppression. The derivation from the word appello, naturally shows its earliest meaning to have been an urgent outcry or prayer against injustice. Hence it inferred a superior power capable of protecting against petty tyranny. In its meaning of seeking a higher tribunal for recourse against a lower, it does not seem to have been a characteristic of the Republic, where the magistrate was generally supreme within his sphere, and those who felt themselves outraged by injustice threw themselves on popular protection by provocatio, instead of looking to redress from a higher official authority. The Empire, however, introduced grades of jurdisdiction, and the ultimate remedy was an appeal to the emperor; thus Paul, when brought before Festus, appealed unto Caesar. It must be understood that the appeal was actually dealt with by a supreme judge representing the emperor, not by the emperor in person. In the Corpus Juris, the appeal to the emperor is called indiscriminately appellatio and provocatio. A considerable portion of the 49th book of the Pandects is devoted to appeals; but little of the practical operation of the system is to be deduced from the propositions there brought together....

The ecclesiastical hierarchy, and the gradations of the feudal system, naturally afforded scope in the Middle Ages for appeals from the lower to the higher authority. In matters ecclesiastical, including these matrimonial, testamentary, and other departments which the church ever tried to bring within the operation of the canon law, there were various grades of appeal, ending with the Pope. The European princes in general struggled against this assumption of authority by the court of Rome, and it was the source of many contests between the ecclesiastical and the regal power.

It became customary for ambitious sovereigns to encourage appeals from the courts of the crown vassals to themselves as represented by the supreme judges, and Charlemagne usually enjoys the credit of having set the example of this system of centralisation, by establishing missi dominici. The great vassals, however, sought recourse against the decisions of the royal courts in their own order, embodied as the great council or parhament of the nation, and hence arose the appeal to the House of Lords as the court of last resort.

When the progress of civilisation and the art of self-government render judges no longer amenable to the charge of tyranny or fraud, an appellate system changes its character and objects. It in some measure certainly tends to preserve that judicial integrity which renders it unnecessary as the immediate refuge of the persecuted suitor. But its ostensible object is the preservation of uniformity in the law. The attainment of this object renders it unfortunately necessary, in such a country as ours, that no tribunal shall give, in the first instance, in any important question, a decision which is not open to appeal. The process has the double advantage, that it has a tendency to bring every legal difficulty ultimately to one tribunal, where a uniformity of principle may be expected in the application of the law, and, at the same time, stimulates the exertions of the subordinate judge, who knowing that his proceedings will be revised, is careful to bring them as close as he can to those uniform principles of law, which he knows that the court of appeal

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Appealable [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. APPE'ALABLE ,

2. That may be appealed; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable

3. That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; applied to persons; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter.

Appealable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable.

2. That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter.

Appealant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who appeals. [Not used.]

Appealant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An appellant.

Appealed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Removed to a higher court, as a cause; prosecuted for a crime by a private person, as a criminal.

Appealed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. of Appeal

2. of Appease

Appealer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who appeals; an appellor.

Appealer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who makes an appeal.

Appealing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Removing a cause to a higher tribunal; prosecuting as a private person for an offense; referring to another for a decision.

Appealing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That appeals; imploring.

Appealing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Appeal

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6 KJV and 30 BSB verses contain “Appeal” — showing the first 20. Show all 30 verses (searchable)

Exodus 5:15

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?

Exodus 10:17

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”

Exodus 10:18

And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.

So Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the LORD.

Numbers 27:15

And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,

So Moses appealed to the LORD,

2 Samuel 19:28

For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”

2 Kings 8:3

And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

At the end of seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to the king to appeal for her house and her land.

2 Kings 8:5

And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”

Job 5:8

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

Psalms 116:1

I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice— my appeal for mercy.

Luke 4:38

And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.

After Jesus had left the synagogue, He went to the home of Simon, whose mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever. So they appealed to Jesus on her behalf,

Luke 18:3

And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

John 12:22

Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

Philip relayed this appeal to Andrew, and both of them went and told Jesus.

Acts 7:59

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Acts 25:11

For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

If, however, I am guilty of anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is no truth to their accusations against me, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Acts 25:12

Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.

Then Festus conferred with his council and replied, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!”

Acts 25:21

But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.

But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”

Acts 25:25

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

But I found he had done nothing worthy of death, and since he has now appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Acts 26:32

Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.

And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

Acts 28:19

But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.

But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.

Romans 11:2

God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel: