Apparlement

In old English law. Resemblance; likelihood, as apparlement of war. St. 2 Rich. II. St. 1, c. 6; Cowell. APPARURA (Lat.)

In old English law. Furniture or implements. Carucariae apparura, plough tackle. Cowell; Jacob. APPEAL (Fr. appeler, to call). In Practice. The removal of a cause from a court of inferior to one of superior jurisdiction, for the purpose of obtaining a review and retrial. Ellsworth, C. J., 3 Dall. (U. S.) 321; 7 Cranch (U. S.) 110; 10 Pet. (U. S.) 205; 14 Mass. 414; 1 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 78; 1 Bin. (Pa.) 219; 3 Bin. (Pa.) 48. It is sometimes used as meaning generally the removal of a cause to a higher court (4 N. J. Eq. 137), and in this sense it includes writ of error (1 Ill. 334). It is a civil-law proceeding in its origin, and differs from a writ of error in this, that it subjects both the law and the facts to a review and a retrial, while a writ of error is a common-law process which removes matter of law only for re-examination. 7 Cranch (U. S.) 111. On an appeal, the whole case is examined and tried, as if it had not been tried before; while on a writ of error, the matters of law merely are examined, and judgment reversed if any errors have been committed. Dane, Abr. "Appeal." The word is used in the sense here given both in chancery and in common-law practice (16 Md. 282; 20 How. [U. S.] 198), and in criminal as well as in civil law (9 Ind. 569; 6 Fla. 679); and in many states the writ of error has been abolished, and appeal established as the ordinary method of review in all cases, the scope of the reviewing varying in the different states. In Old Criminal Practice. A formal accusation made by one private person against another of having committed some heinous crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 312. In Legislation. The act by which a member of a legislative body who questions the correctness of a decision of the presiding officer, or "chair," procures a vote of the body upon the decision.

I. fr: In old English law. Resemblance; hkehhood.

In old English law. Resemblance; likelihood; as apparlement of war. St. 2 Rich. 11. st. 1, ec. 6; Cowell.

Resemblance. It is said to be derived from pareillement, French, in like manner. Cunn. Dict. h. t.