The counsel for the Commonwealth had argued that the appellate jurisdiction conferred by the Constitution on the Supreme Court was merely authority to revise the decisions of the inferior courts of the United States.
The records of the Privy Council show that the acts of the Court of Session were sometimes rendered null and void by the Council,[8] but the Council in no way exercised an appellate jurisdiction.
The judges of first instance also had appellate jurisdiction in cases of appeal against the decisions rendered by justices of the peace in actions in which the latter had original jurisdiction.
Courts of first instance have appellate jurisdiction over all causes arising in justices' and other inferior courts in their respective provinces.
In July he addressed to his bishop an open letter on "The Appellate Jurisdiction of the Crown in Matters Spiritual," and he also took part in a meeting in London which protested against the decision.
The Staff of Government exercises appellate jurisdiction, similar to that of the Appeal Courts in England.
It is the highestappellate court of the United Kingdom.
On the east side is the new Appellate Court House, a handsome building, perhaps somewhat overloaded with ornamentation.
Is the present composition of the appellate tribunal conformable either to reason or to the statutes of the Reformation, and the spirit of the Constitution as expressed in them?
Is the Royal Supremacy, according to the Constitution, any bar to the adjustment of the appellate jurisdiction in such a manner as that it shall convey the sense of the Church in questions of doctrine?
It exercised executive and appellate judicial functions, appointed two burgomasters, and two pensionaries or legal councillors, and also selected the lesser magistrates and officials of the city.
Original cognizance of legal matters belonged to the municipal courts, appellate jurisdiction to the supreme tribunal, in which the judges were appointed by the sovereign.
This appellate jurisdiction was due in theory partly to the doctrine that the king was the origin of justice; and partly to the idea that political matters could not safely be left to ordinary tribunals.
They regulate matters concerning public worship and ordinances, and haveappellate jurisdiction from the kirk session.
The only appellate jurisdiction from the metropolitans is the Roman See.
The Presbytery has jurisdiction, partly appellateand partly original, over a number of parishes.
There seems to have been no machinery for assisting the original or appellate jurisdiction of the pope by secular process,--by significavit or otherwise.
They were expressed to have not merely appellate but original jurisdiction over causes (iii.
The audiencia, according to his plan of reform, was to be limited to judicial affairs, with appellatejurisdiction over civil, criminal, and commercial cases.
The audiencia exercised both original and appellate jurisdiction, as we have already noted.
The audiencia, therefore, exercised appellate jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases tried in first instance by the judges of the provinces.
The audiencia had appellatejurisdiction over all residents of the colony, both natives and Spaniards.
Without carrying this discussion further, it is clear that the audiencia had general appellate jurisdiction in cases involving the Chinese.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court then reversed his conviction, but later, on appeal to the Court of Appeals, it was sustained.
At last, after several years, in 1899, the case came up in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.
It would ill become this court to sanction such an attempt to evade the law, or to exercise an appellate power in this circuitous way, which it is forbidden to exercise in the direct and regular and invariable forms of judicial proceedings.
The correction of one error in the court below does not deprive the appellate court of the power of examining further into the record, and correcting any other material errors which may have been committed by the inferior court.
If the defendant objects to it, he must plead it specially, and unless the fact on which he relies is found to be true by a jury, or admitted to be true by the plaintiff, the jurisdiction cannot be disputed in an appellate court.
And the appellate court therefore exercises the power for which alone appellate courts are constituted, by reversing the judgment of the court below for this error.
And if he omits to do this, and should, by any oversight of the Circuit Court, obtain a judgment in his favor, the judgment would be reversed in the appellate court for want of jurisdiction in the court below.
As, in these courts, if the facts appearing on the record show that the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction, its judgment will be reversed in the appellate court for that cause, and the case remanded with directions to be dismissed.
The king ordered the same through the licentiate Christovaõ Fernandez, member of the desembargo and auditor-in-chief of India with appellate jurisdiction.
The plan of providing some intermediate courts having final appellate jurisdiction of certain classes of questions and cases has, I think, received a more general approval from the bench and bar of the country than any other.
To extend the circuit courts equally throughout the different parts of the Union, and at the same time to avoid such a multiplication of members as would encumber the supreme appellate tribunal, is the object desired.
The single exception is that of a State court in Wisconsin, and this has not only been reversed by the proper appellate tribunal, but has met with such universal reprobation that there can be no danger from it as a precedent.
In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
The circuit courts of appeals have only appellate jurisdiction, that is, they hear and determine only cases appealed from the lower courts, and their decisions are final in most cases.
He was successful at the bar, and had moved to Naples to practise before the appellate tribunals there, when the events that led to the uprisings of '48 began to effervesce.
It was yet possible to practically nullify administrative control by according indefinite limits to the appellate jurisdiction of these courts.
Only thirty-eight of them were in reality of significance as throwing light upon the function of the court as an appellate tribunal, standing between the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Two appellate courts, in turn, sustained this view.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of the British Isles is the supremeappellate court for courts under the British flag outside the British Isles.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of the British Isles is still, however rarely used, the supreme appellate court for the five over-seas Britannic nations.
The magisterial commission which followed on March 29, had plainly been held at the instance of the Appellate Court.
The record of the refusal of the Magistracy has not been procured, but the decree of the Appellate Court gives December 20 as its date.
The papal penitentiary, or court, grounded on the "power of the keys," possessed original and appellate powers of first instance and last resort.
This gave him a kind of appellate and revisory jurisdiction in the case of deposed bishops even in the East.
This supreme appellate power assumed by the Bishop of Rome is significantly prophetic.
The claim of the Bishop of Rome to appellate jurisdiction, which had been exercised more or less from an early date, received a sweeping confirmation and a new impetus in 347 through the Council of Sardica.
The appellate power of Rome was never once used during his rule.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appellate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
