Court Of Appeals Definition

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courts of appeals
noun
A state court to which appeals are taken from the trial courts: usually it is an intermediate appellate court, but in several states it is the final appellate court.
Webster's New World
Any of the federal appellate courts, one in each of eleven judicial circuits, intermediate between the U.S. district courts and the Supreme Court.
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court of appeals
Plural:
courts of appeals

Court Of Appeals Sentence Examples

  • The Maryland Court of Appeals sustained the validity of this act.

  • His father, John Johnson (1770-1824), was a distinguished lawyer, who served in both houses of the Maryland General Assembly, as attorney-general of the state (1806-1811), as a judge of the court of appeals (1811-1821), and as a chancellor of his state (1821-1824).

  • Taney; with Thomas Harris he reported the decisions of the court of appeals in Harris and Johnson's Reports (1820-1827); and in 1818 he was appointed chief commissioner of insolvent debtors.

  • But the new constitution of that year substituted a court of appeals for the court of errors, merged the court of chancery into the supreme court, established in each county a new county court composed of a single judge, and, taking the appointment of judges from the governor, gave the election of them to the people.

  • The highest judicial court in the state is not, as in most states of the Union, the supreme court, but the court of appeals.

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