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A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
American English and British English have diverged significantly on the topic of appellate terminology. [3] American cases go up "on appeal" and one "appeals from" (intransitive) or "appeals" an order, award, judgment, or conviction, while decisions of British courts are said to be "under appeal" and one "appeals against" a judgment. [3]
Courts of Appeal in the French judiciary. Procedure (simplified) of an appeal and of an appeal en cassation. The court of appeal recognizes appeals of matters previously brought before the relevant tribunals, (du ressort), both civil and penal: [16] tribunal d'instance. police tribunals; tribunal de grande instance. juge d'instruction
The Supreme Court of Maryland was known as the Court of Appeals, and the Appellate Court of Maryland was known as the Court of Special Appeals, until a 2022 constitutional amendment changed their names. Depending on the system, certain courts may serve as both trial courts and appellate courts, hearing appeals of decisions made by courts with ...
[1] [2] For courts like the United States Courts of Appeals in which each case is heard by a three-judge panel instead of the entire court, en banc review is usually used only for unusually complex or important cases or when the court believes there is an especially significant issue at stake. [3] En banc is a French phrase meaning "in bench".
The Court of Appeal of Paris (French: Cour d'appel de Paris) is the largest appeals court in France in terms of the number of cases brought before Its jurisdiction covers the departments of Paris, Essonne, Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, and the Val de Marne.
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Appeal Isimirie, Nigerian taekwondo practitioner; Appeal (cricket), a request to an umpire for a ruling on whether a cricket batter is out; Appeal play, in baseball when a member of the defensive team calls the attention of an umpire to an infraction; Rhetorical appeals, devices used in rhetoric to persuade an audience, namely ethos, logos, and ...