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• brief — 1 n [Old French bref brief letter, writ indicating legal proceedings, from Late Latin brevis breve short document, summary, from Latin brevis, adjective, short] 1: a concise statement of a client s case written for the instruction of an attorney… …   Law dictionary

• appeal — ap·peal 1 /ə pēl/ n [Old French apel, from apeler to call, accuse, appeal, from Latin appellare]: a proceeding in which a case is brought before a higher court for review of a lower court s judgment for the purpose of convincing the higher court… …   Law dictionary

• Brief (law) — A brief (Latin brevis , short) is a written legal document used in various legal adversarial systems that is presented to a court arguing why the party to the case should prevail. In England and Wales, the phrase refers to the papers given to a… …   Wikipedia

• Appeal — For other uses, see Appeal (disambiguation). An appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law. The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court s decision. The District of… …   Wikipedia

• brief — A concise and brief statement of authorities in various forms suitable to the purpose of counsel or the court, but, in a case on appeal, a more formal and conventional, but nevertheless concise presentation, in printing, typewriting, or writing,… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Appeal Group — The Appeal Group was a small group of Marxist Leninists who broke away from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in 1971 on the basis that the CPGB had abandoned revolutionary Marxism Leninism and that, after many attempts, it was… …   Wikipedia

• brief on appeal — See brief …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Gaskammer-Brief — Als „Gaskammerbrief“ wird ein von Erhard Wetzel verfasster Briefentwurf bezeichnet, der mit Datum vom 25. Oktober 1941 an den Reichskommissar Hinrich Lohse nach Riga adressiert ist. Der Brief ist das erste bekannte Dokument, in dem von der… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• The Pelican Brief (film) — Infobox Film name=The Pelican Brief caption = The movie poster for The Pelican Brief . imdb id=0107798 writer=John Grisham Alan J. Pakula starring=Julia Roberts Denzel Washington Sam Shepard John Heard Tony Goldwyn James B. Sikking William… …   Wikipedia

• Nevada Appeal — Logo of the Nevada Appeal The Nevada Appeal is a daily newspaper published in Carson City, Nevada by Swift Communications. The paper is available in six regional editions across northern Nevada and eastern California: Lahontan Valley News (Fallon …   Wikipedia

• The Pelican Brief — infobox Book | name = The Pelican Brief title orig = translator = image caption = author = John Grisham cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Legal thriller novel publisher = Doubleday release date = 1992… …   Wikipedia