Appeal (disambiguation)

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An appeal is the process in law by which cases are reviewed and parties request a formal change to an official decision.

Appeal may also refer to:

Politics and law

  • Appeal (motion), in parliamentary procedure a challenge of the chair's ruling
  • Appeal of 18 June, Charles de Gaulle's 1940 call for French resistance against Nazi Germany
  • Mariam Appeal, a political campaign established in 1998
  • Criminal appeal, an ancient, private right of criminal prosecution in common-law jurisdictions

Publications and media

  • The Appeal, a novel by John Grisham
  • Appeal, an anti-slavery document by abolitionist David Walker
  • The Commercial Appeal, a daily newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee
  • Appeal to Reason (newspaper), a weekly left-wing political newspaper in the US until 1922
  • The Appeal, English title of the 1970 animated short film by Ryszard Czekała, Apel
  • The Appeal, online news site
  • The Appeal (newspaper)

Other uses

  • Appeal Isimirie, Nigerian taekwondo practitioner
  • Appeal (cricket), a request to an umpire for a ruling on whether a cricket batter is out
  • Appeal play, in baseball when a member of the defensive team calls the attention of an umpire to an infraction
  • Rhetorical appeals, devices used in rhetoric to persuade an audience, namely ethos, logos, and pathos
  • Sex appeal, the quality of arousing attraction on the basis of sexual desire

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Appeal
  • Appellate Division (disambiguation)
  • Justice of Appeal (disambiguation)
  • Lord of Appeal (disambiguation)
  • Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, former administrative law body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Informal fallacy, reasoning error through appeal to something other than logical argument
  • Preference, choosing between alternatives
  • Taste (sociology), an individual's personal and cultural patterns of choice and preference
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