Reversal: The act of an appellate court annulling a judgment of a lower court because of an error.
Reversal
(n) Reversal is the process by which an appellant court negate the order issued by a trial court or lower court when it is of the opinion that the ruling of the lower court was not correct and fair.
Reversal - Setting aside, annulling, vacating or changing to the contrary the decision of a lower court or other body.
Service - Delivery of a legal document to the opposite party.
Reversal: The setting aside of a lower court's decision by an appellate court.
Reversible Error: A procedural error during a trial or hearing sufficiently harmful to justify reversing the judgment of a lower court.
reversal
n. the decision of a court of appeal ruling that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and is therefore reversed.
Reversals of attainder and compensation to the survivors and their families
Title page of A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft by John Hale (Boston, 1702) ...
Reversal - An action of a higher court in setting aside or revoking a lower court decision.
Reversible Error - An error during a trial or hearing sufficiently harmful to justify reversing the judgment of a lower court.
REVERSAL, international law. First. A declaration by which a sovereign promises that he will observe a certain order, or certain conditions, which have been once established, ...
Reversal of a jury's verdict by a judge when the judge believes that there were insufficient facts on which to base the jury's verdict, or that the verdict did not correctly apply the law.
Reversal
Definition - Noun
1 : an act or the process of reversing
2 : an instance of reversing <the ~ of the lower court's decision> ...
Although the reversal of a conviction based on subsequent disculpatory evidence has always formed part of criminal law, the advent of DNA evidence has given it considerable persuasive effect.
These judgments are of two kinds, of affirmance and reversal. When the judgment is for the defendant in error, whether the errors assigned be in law or in fact, it is 'that the former judgment be affirmed and stand in full force and effect, ...
Appeal: A request to the higher court for review of the lower court's decision and reversal of the judgment.
Appearance: A formal submission to the courts by the defendant (respondent) in response to a complaint or summons.
When an appellate court sets aside the decision of a lower court. A reversal may be accompanied by a remand to the lower court for further proceedings.
Respondent
The person who responds to the filing of a petition.
reverse: When an appellate court sets aside the decision of a lower court because of an error. A reversal is often followed by a remand. Return to Top
sentence: The punishment ordered by a court for a defendant convicted of a crime.
Reverse
The act of an appellate court setting aside the decision of a trial court. A reversal is often accompanied by a remand to the lower court for further proceedings.
harmless error - An error committed by a lower court during a trial, but determined by an appellate court not to be prejudicial to the rights of the party affected, and therefore furnishing no basis for reversal of the lower court's judgment.
Maryland, the prosecution's failure to hand over this exculpatory evidence is a violation of a defendant's due-process rights, but if the defendant is convicted, this error won't necessarily result in a reversal of the conviction.
HARMLESS ERROR -- An error committed in the course of a trial, which does not justify reversal of the verdict on appeal.
However, when the editors of an underground periodical, Oz, were convicted in 1971 for violating postal laws, an appeal court held that a periodical need not be judged as a whole, an apparent reversal of the 1959 act.
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