appellate reversal of a judgment

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• reversal — re·ver·sal n 1: an act or the process of reversing 2: an instance of reversing the reversal of the lower court s decision Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

• reversal — An overthrowing; a setting aside. An annulling; an avoiding. Cowdery v London, 139 Cal 298, 303, 73 P 196; Laithe v McDonald, 7 Kan 255, 268. The act of an appellate court in setting aside, annulling, or vacating the judgment or order, entered by …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• procedural law — Law that prescribes the procedures and methods for enforcing rights and duties and for obtaining redress (e.g., in a suit). It is distinguished from substantive law (i.e., law that creates, defines, or regulates rights and duties). Procedural law …   Universalium

• error — A mistaken judgment or incorrect belief as to the existence or effect of matters of fact, or a false or mistaken conception or application of the law. Such a mistaken or false conception or application of the law to the facts of a cause as will… …   Black's law dictionary

• error — A mistaken judgment or incorrect belief as to the existence or effect of matters of fact, or a false or mistaken conception or application of the law. Such a mistaken or false conception or application of the law to the facts of a cause as will… …   Black's law dictionary

• harmless error — see error Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. harmless error n …   Law dictionary

• harmless error doctrine — The doctrine that minor or harmless errors during a trial do not require reversal of the judgment by an appellate court. An error which is trivial or formal or merely academic and was not prejudicial to the substantial rights of the party… …   Black's law dictionary

• harmless error doctrine — The doctrine that minor or harmless errors during a trial do not require reversal of the judgment by an appellate court. An error which is trivial or formal or merely academic and was not prejudicial to the substantial rights of the party… …   Black's law dictionary

• plain error — see error Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. plain error n. An obviou …   Law dictionary

• Patrick Higginbotham — Patrick Errol Higginbotham (born 1938 in McCalla, Alabama) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In 2005, he moved his chambers from Dallas, Texas to Austin, Texas. BackgroundHigginbotham attended the… …   Wikipedia

• 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