Word Meanings - APPELLANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capability of appeal.

APPEALER
One who makes an appeal.
APPEAL
appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. To make application for the removal of from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review
APPEALABLE
1. Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. 2. That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter.
APPEALING
That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"*ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n.
APPEALANT
An appellant. Shak.
CAPABILITY
1. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor. 2. Capacity of being used or improved.
INCAPABILITY
Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office. (more info) 1. The quality of being incapable; incapacity. Suckling.
UNAPPEALABLE
1. Not appealable; that can not be carried to a higher tribunal by appeal; as, an unappealable suit or action. 2. Not to be appealed from; -- said of a judge or a judgment that can not be overruled. The infallible, unappealable Judge . South.
INAPPEALABLE
Not admitting of appeal; not appealable. Coleridge.