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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
appellant
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the absence of the jury, counsel for the appellant submitted that the documents were inadmissible in the criminal proceedings.
▪ In the evidence before us the appellants have emphasised that throughout they had no intention to flout the authority of the court.
▪ In this case it was not contended that the appellant had not acted dishonestly.
▪ Instead, they allowed offenders such as these two appellants to return again and again with further stolen property.
▪ Nor is he entitled to examine proceedings in Parliament in order to show that the appellants by fraudulently misleading Parliament caused him loss.
▪ That situation was avoided in the present case, because the appellant chose not to give evidence for the reason already stated.
▪ The appellant had not been required to surrender to the Central Criminal Court and the question of granting bail did not arise.
▪ The appellant was convicted of wounding with intent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appellant

Appellant \Ap*pel"lant\, a. [L. appellans, p. pr. of appellare; cf. F. appelant. See Appeal.] Relating to an appeal; appellate. ``An appellant jurisdiction.''
--Hallam.

Party appellant (Law), the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee.
--Tomlins.

Appellant

Appellant \Ap*pel"lant\, n.

  1. (Law)

    1. One who accuses another of felony or treason. [Obs.]

    2. One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.

  2. A challenger. [Obs.]
    --Milton.

  3. (Eccl. Hist.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.

  4. One who appeals or entreats.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
appellant

late 14c., Anglo-French, from Old French apelant, noun use of present participle of apeler, from Latin appellare (see appeal).

Wiktionary
appellant

a. (context legal English) of or relating to appeals n. (context legal English) a litigant or party that is making an appeal in court.

WordNet
appellant

  1. adj. of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals); "appellate court" [syn: appellate]

  2. n. the party who appeals a decision of a lower court [syn: plaintiff in error]

Usage examples of "appellant".

He came therefore to be in the same situation as the appellant in criminal cases.

It does not appear that when they were made appellant had any fuels of the kinds covered, or that those to be delivered were then in existence.

Court took cognizance of the full hearing accorded the appellant, and of his failure to choose another route, although he was at liberty to do so.

The executive department having thus elected to waive any right to free itself from the obligation to deliver up its own citizens, it is the plain duty of this court to recognize the obligation to surrender the appellant as one imposed by the treaty as the supreme law of the land as affording authority for the warrant of extradition.

This case came to the Supreme Court on appeal from a decree of the circuit court of appeals dissolving an injunction restraining certain registration officials from excluding the appellant from the voting list.

However, the election in which appellant desired to vote was held prior to the appeal, and the case thereby became moot.

The Court sustained the injunction against the objection that it violated freedom of the press, holding that appellant was guilty of attempting to monopolize interstate commerce.

Court declined to intervene in case coming up from Georgia in which appellant, claiming that he had become insane following conviction and sentence of death, sought a postponement of execution from the governor of the State.

Judge take care not to take any further action in respect of the appellant, such as arresting him, or questioning him, or liberating him from prison, from the time when the appeal is presented to him up to the time when he has returned negative apostils.

And when the appointed time for the appellant has arrived, if the Judge has not prepared his apostils or answers, or in some other way is not ready, the appellant can at once demand that his appeal be heard, and may continue to do so on each successive day up to the thirtieth, which is the last day legally allowed for the submission of the apostils.

Judge, answering to the said appeal, if it may be called an appeal, says that he, the Judge, has proceeded and did intend to proceed in accordance with the Canonical decrees and the Imperial statutes and laws, and has not departed from the path of either law nor intended so to depart, and has in no way acted or intended to act unjustly towards the appellant, as is manifest from an examination of the alleged grounds for this appeal.

For he does not cease to be the Judge, but shall continue his process against the appellant until the Judge to whom the appeal was made shall order him to cease.

Judge take care not to commence any new proceedings against the appellant, by arresting him or, if he is in custody, liberating him from prison, from the time of the presentation of the appeal up to the time of the return of negative apostils to him.

Judge, answering to the said appeal, if it may be called an appeal, if it may be called an appeal, says that he has proceeded in the present cause justly and as he ought and not otherwise, nor has he molested or intended to molest the appellant, as is apparent from a perusal of the alleged objections.

Judge has in no way dealt unjustly by the appellant nor given him cause to appeal, but that the appellant is afraid lest justice should proceed against him according to his crimes.