A court whose jurisdiction is to review decisions of lower courts or agencies
Synonyms:
appellate court
appeals-court
court of appeal
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.