appellate

Etymology

From Latin appellātus.

adj

  1. That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
    In this game of bluff and counter-bluff, the parlementaires calculated that their absence – which entailed much of the country being without an appellate jurisdiction – would force the government to treat for terms. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 228

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