Apostles
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
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.