What is "appellants"

Usage examples of "appellants".

Thus, so far as the ultimate triumph of justice is concerned, out of 169 cases in that period the appellants finally succeeded in twenty-two only.

Lords appellants,Your differences shall all rest under gageTill we assign you to your days of trial.

Methinks, the number of appellants were enough to shock and startle any judge of a genius less unlimited than yours: but in order to prevent such glorious trials, the person (it seems) to whose care the education of your highness is committed, has resolved (as I am told) to keep you in almost an universal ignorance of our studies, which it is your inherent birth-right to inspect.

The appellants of the Wopotami brief-namely one Chief Thunder Head and his attorneys-must appear before the Supreme Court for oral interrogation prior to any Court decision.