Apostles

Brief letters of dismissal granted to a party who takes an appeal from the decision of an English court of admiralty, stating the case, and declaring that the record will be transmitted. 2 Brown, Civ. & Adm. Law, 438; Dig. 49. 6. This term was used in the civil law. It is derived from apostolis, a Greek word, which signifies "one sent," because the judge from whose sentence an appeal. was made sent to the superior judge these letters of dismission, or apostles. Merlin, Report, mot "Apotres;" 1 Pars. Mar. Law, 745; 1 Blatchf. (U. S.) 663.

Brief letters of dismissal granted to a party who takes an appeal from the decision of an English court of admiralty, stating the case, and declaring that the record will be transmitted. 2 Brown, Civ. and Adm. Law 438; Dig. 49. 6. It is used in Adm. Rule 6, of the 2d Circ. 90 Fed. lxix. This term was used in the civil law. It is derived from apostolos, a Greek word, which signifies one sent, because the judge from whose sentence an appeal was made, sent to the superior judge these letters of dismission, or apostles; Merlin, Repert. mot Apotres; 1 Pars. Marit. Law 745.

The papers forming the record on appeal in the admii-alty and transmitted from the lower court to the higher; letters dismissory given to the appellant stating that the record will be transmitted.

In English admiralty practice. A term borrowed from the civil law, denoting brief dismissory letters granted toa party who appeals from an inferior to a superior court, embodying a statement of the case and a declaration that the record will be transmitted. This term is still sometimes applied in the APOSTOL!.

In the civil law. Certificates of the inferior judge from whom a eause is removed, directed to the superior. Dig. 49,6. See APosTLes.

The papers forming the record mitted, in civil or admiralty practice, higher court; Brief letters of dismissal, stating that the record will be transmitted.

[Lat. apostoli, from Gr. bto Giilloi, to send from.] In civil and admiralty law. Letters dismissory, addressed by a court from which an appeal is taken, to the superior court, for the purpose of certifying the appeal. Spelman, voc. Apostali. Short letters dismissory, signed hy the judge a quo, stating shortly the case and the sentence, and in the room of further apostles, declaring^ he T^ill transmit all the proceedings. 2 iro. Civ. Law, 438, ch. 9. Letters missive, transmitted to the judge ad quern, to instruct him in the nature of the suit. Halifax Anal. b. 3, c. 11, n. 34. See Apostoli. This term is still sometimes applied in the admiralty courts of the United States, to the papers sent up or tftuismitted on appeals.