appellant
IPA: ʌpˈɛɫʌnt
noun
- (law) a litigant or party that is making an appeal in court
- One who makes an earnest entreaty of any kind.
- (obsolete) One who challenges another to single combat.
- (historical) One of the clergy in the Jansenist controversy who rejected the bull Unigenitus issued in 1713, appealing to a pope "better informed", or to a general council.
adjective
- (law) of or relating to appeals; appellate
- in the process of appealing
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Examples of "appellant" in Sentences
- The 76-year-old appellant is married and the father of two minors.
- The facts, as presented, suggest that the appellant was the unwitting user of counterfeit currency.
- The appellant was the plaintiff in an individual action in New York who became a member of the class and objected.
- The driver of the van, later identified as appellant, pulled up to the entrance of the building and rolled down her window.
- In this case, the appellant was the Government of Alberta that suddenly had images of paying an allowance to every twenty- thirty- and forty-something couch potato in the province who “failed to launch”.
- There were only a small minority who had demonstrated a change for the better and gone on to lead lawful and purposeful lives and he strongly believed that the appellant was a changed person who had realised the gravity of his index offence and if given a chance would prove himself worthy of trust.
- In relation to the sentence of Turner it is said that there was an insufficient basis for concluding that the appellant was a dangerous offender for the purposes of imposing an extended sentence, and secondly, that there was unfair disparity between two sentences that of Mr Turner and that of his co-accused, and thirdly, that the custodial element of the sentence was too long.
- The evidence disclosed that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was the sole manufacturer of the tobacco, and that this company manufactured the identical plug which contained the rotten toe; the tobacco in question was sold by the manufacturer to the other defendant, the Corr-Williams Company, and resold by the latter company to a retailer in Jackson, and was bought by appellant from the retailer.
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