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direct appeal

direct appeal 1 : an appeal from an order of a three-judge court granting or denying an interlocutory or permanent injunction that may be taken directly to the U.S. Supreme Court under title 28 section 1253 of the U.S. Code 2 : direct review ...

Justices of Appeal

Justices of Appeal, the title borne by the ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal, under (English) Jud. Act, 1875, s. 4, until the (English) Jud. Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 9), by s. 4 (replaced by (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 6 (3) , gave them the style of 'Lords Justice of Appeal' (see that title)....

interlocutory appeal

interlocutory appeal an appeal from a nonfinal, or interlocutory, district court order, such as an injunction. An interlocutory order is issued during litigation of the case in the district court, not at the end of it. Interlocutory appeals are permitted by statute as an exception to the general policy requiring a final district court decision or order before an appeal is permitted. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...

cross-appeal

cross-appeal : an appeal taken by an appellee against the appellant compare counterclaim, cross-action, cross-claim cross-appeal vb ...

direct review

direct review : judicial review of a case obtained through ordinary appellate procedure rather than through a collateral attack ...

judicial review

judicial review 1 : review 2 : a constitutional doctrine that gives to a court system the power to annul legislative or executive acts which the judges declare to be unconstitutional ;also : the process of using this power see also checks and balances Marbury v. Madison in the Important Cases section ...

review : a judicial reexamination and reconsideration of the legality or constitutionality of something (as the proceedings of a lower tribunal or a legislative enactment or governmental action) see also judicial review vt : to reexamine judicially re·view·abil·i·ty [-vyü-ə-bi-lə-tē] n re·view·able [ri-vyü-ə-bəl] adj ...

Appeal and revision

Appeal and revision, the expression 'revision' is meant to convey the idea of a much narrower jurisdiction than that conveyed by the expression 'appeal', Sri Raja Lakshmi Dyeing Works v. Rangaswamy Chettiar, (1980) 4 SCC 259. [T.N. Bulding (Lease and Rent Control) Act 1960, s. 25]...

Appeal of death, of felony

Appeal of death, of felony. See Ashford v. Thornton, (1818) 1 B&Ald 405, and 59 Geo. 3, c. 46, abolishing this kind of appeal....

Claim for judicial review

Claim for judicial review, means a claim to review the lawfulness of (1) an enactment; or (2) a decision, action or failure to act in relation to the exercise of a public function Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules, 2000, 54.1 (2) UK, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(1), para 159, p. 302....

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