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appeal is the process in law by which cases are reviewed and parties request a formal change to an official decision.
Appeal may also refer to:
Politics and law
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Appeal (motion), in parliamentary procedure a challenge of the chair's ruling
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Appeal of 18 June
The Appeal of 18 June (french: L'Appel du 18 juin) was the first speech made by Charles de Gaulle after his arrival in London in 1940 following the Battle of France. Broadcast to Vichy France by the radio services of the British Broadcasting Cor ...
, Charles de Gaulle's 1940 call for French resistance against Nazi Germany
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Mariam Appeal, a political campaign established in 1998
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Criminal appeal, an ancient, private right of criminal prosecution in common-law jurisdictions
Publications and media
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The Appeal
''The Appeal'' is a 2008 novel by John Grisham, his 21st book and his first fictional legal thriller since '' The Broker'' was published in 2005. It was published by Doubleday and released in hardcover in the United States on January 29, 2008. ...
'', a novel by John Grisham
* ''Appeal'', an anti-slavery document by abolitionist
David Walker
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The Commercial Appeal
''The Commercial Appeal'' (also known as the ''Memphis Commercial Appeal'') is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, als ...
'', a daily newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee
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''Appeal to Reason'' (newspaper), a weekly left-wing political newspaper in the US until 1922
*''The Appeal'', English title of the 1970 animated short film by Ryszard Czekała, ''
Apel''
*''The Appeal'', online news site
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Appeal (cricket)
In cricket, an appeal (locally known as a “Howzat”) is the act of a player (or players) on the fielding team asking an umpire for a decision regarding whether a batter is out or not. According to Law 31 of the Laws of Cricket, an umpire may ...
, a request to an umpire for a ruling on whether a cricket batsman is out
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Appeal play, in baseball when a member of the defensive team calls the attention of an umpire to an infraction
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Rhetorical appeals, devices used in rhetoric to persuade an audience, namely ''ethos'', ''logos'', and ''pathos''
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Sex appeal
Sex is the trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing animal or plant produces male or female gametes. Male plants and animals produce smaller mobile gametes (spermatozoa, sperm, pollen), while females produce larger ones (ova, oft ...
, the quality of arousing attraction on the basis of sexual desire
See also
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Appellate Division (disambiguation)
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Justice of Appeal (disambiguation)
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Lord of Appeal (disambiguation)
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Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) was an administrative law body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which decided issues of patentability. Under the America Invents Act, the BPAI was replaced with the Pa ...
, former administrative law body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Informal fallacy
Informal fallacies are a type of incorrect argument in natural language. The source of the error is not just due to the ''form'' of the argument, as is the case for formal fallacies, but can also be due to their ''content'' and ''context''. Fall ...
, reasoning error through appeal to something other than logical argument
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Preference, choosing between alternatives
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Taste (sociology)
In sociology, taste or palate is an individual or a demographic group's subjective preferences of dietary, design, cultural and/or aesthetic patterns. Taste manifests socially via distinctions in consumer choices such as delicacies/ bev ...
, an individual's personal and cultural patterns of choice and preference
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