appeal

Reikšmė

Noun

1. An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
2. The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
3. A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
4. An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
5. 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 offence against the public; an accusation.
6. At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
7. A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
8. A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
9. A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
10. A power to attract or interest.
11. A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
12. A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.

Verb

1. Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
2. To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
3. To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
4. Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
5. Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
6. To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
7. To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
8. To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
9. To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
10. To be attractive.
11. To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.

Brūkšnelis kaip

ap‧peal

Tariama kaip (IPA)

/əˈpiːl/

Etimologija

From Middle English apel, appel (“formal accusation brought in court; a challenge to trial by combat; an appeal to a higher court or authority; plea (for mercy, protection, etc.); pealing (of bells)”) [and other forms], from Old French apel (“a call”) (modern French appel (“a call; an appeal”)), from apeler (“to call; to call out”), from Latin appellāre (“to address as, call by name; to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”), alternative form adpellāre, from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at; to”)) + pellere (“to drive, impel, push; to hurl, propel; to banish, expel; to eject, thrust out”) + -āre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to approach”), from *pel- (“to beat; to drive; to push”). Doublet of appel.

Sakiniai

An appeal to John Doe .

Kreipimasis į Johną Doe.