Definition of "appellate"

appellate

/əˈpɛlət/

adjective
not comparable
1. That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
  Quotations
  In this game of bluff and counter-bluff, the parlementaires calculated that their absence – which entailed much of the country being without an appellate jurisdiction – would force the government to treat for terms.
  2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 228