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attributive(especially of a court) concerned with or dealing with applications for decisions to be reversed.
‘courts of appellate jurisdiction’
‘It may be, of course, that the person seeking the intervention of the appellate court will be acquitted.’
‘It is highly usual for an appellate court to get involved in a lawsuit before there is a final judgment in a trial.’
‘That question has not been determined by any ultimate appellate court in any common law country.’
‘New disputes have arisen following the decisions in the trial and appellate courts.’
‘The Ohio intermediate appellate court ordered a new trial on the issue of damages.’
Origin
Late Middle English (originally in the sense ‘appealed against, accused’): from Latin appellatus ‘appealed against’, from the verb appellare (see appeal). The current sense dates from the mid 18th century.