Appellate Jurisdiction: The power of a court to review a case that has already been tried by a lower court.
Appellate Jurisdiction The power of a court to review and revise a lower court's decision. Compare: original jurisdiction
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APPELLATE JURISDICTION. The jurisdiction which a superior court has to bear appeals of causes which have been tried in inferior courts. It differs from original jurisdiction, which is the power to entertain suits instituted in the first instance.
appellate jurisdictionThe appellate court has the right to review and revise the lower court decision.
appelleeThe party against whom an appeal is taken.
arrest of judgmentPostponing the effect of a judgment.
APPELLATE JURISDICTION - The power and authority of a court (established by state law) to review a case that has already been tried by a lower court.
APPELLEE - The party responding to an appeal filed by the opposite party in a higher court.
Appellate jurisdiction
Definition
: the jurisdiction granted to particular courts to hear appeals of the decisions of lower tribunals and to reverse, affirm, or modify those decisions
compare original jurisdiction in this entry ...
The court of appeals shall have appellate jurisdiction only, which shall be co-extensive with the limits of the state.
It has been stated at the bar that the appellate jurisdiction may be exercised in a variety of forms, and that, if it be the will of the legislature that a mandamus should be used for that purpose, that will must be obeyed.
It exercises final appellate jurisdiction in cases involving federal law and it has original jurisdiction in a limited number of matters.
"There is in the federal judiciary an employment of the writ substantially as the old prerogative writ in the king's bench practice, also as a mode of exercising appellate jurisdiction, ...
Located in Washington, D.C., it is the highest court in the United States; the U.S. Supreme Court has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation.
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original jurisdiction
n. the authority of a court to hold a trial, as distinguished from appellate jurisdiction to hear appeals from trial judgments.
Jurisdiction in the first instance; jurisdiction to take cognizance of a case at its inception; e.g., the superior courts have original jurisdiction over marriage dissolutions, while the appellate courts have only appellate jurisdiction over marriage ...
 See also: Jurisdiction, Appellate, Court, Law, State
  
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