Law

• Appeal
  Appeal
  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....
  
   – in law
  Law
  Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
  
   an appeal is a challenge of a judicial judgement to a higher authority, usually called an appellate court
  Appellate court
  An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals or appeal court , is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal...
  
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  • Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office
    Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office
    Decisions of the first instances of the European Patent Office can be appealed, i.e. challenged, before the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, in a judicial procedure , as opposed to an administrative procedure. These boards act as the final instances in the granting and opposition procedures before the...
    
    
  • Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
    Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
    The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences is an administrative law body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office , which decides issues of patentability. The Chief Administrative Patent Judge is James Donald Smith.-Structure:...
    
    , in the United States
• Appeal (motion)
  Appeal (motion)
  In parliamentary procedure, an appeal from the decision of the chair is used to challenge a ruling of the chair.-Explanation and Use:George Demeter notes that it "protects the assembly against the arbitrary control of the meeting by its presiding officer." The most common occasions for the motion...
  
   – in parliamentary procedure
  Parliamentary procedure
  Parliamentary procedure is the body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies, and other deliberative assemblies...
  
   an appeal is a challenge of the chair's ruling.

Argument

• Various types of logical fallacy are described as an appeal to something:
  • Appeal to tradition
    Appeal to tradition
    Appeal to tradition is a common fallacy in which a thesis is deemed correct on the basis that it correlates with some past or present tradition...
    
    
  • Appeal to novelty
    Appeal to novelty
    The appeal to novelty is a fallacy in which someone prematurely claims that an idea or proposal is correct or superior, exclusively because it is new and modern. In a controversy between status quo and new inventions, an appeal to novelty argument isn't in itself a valid argument...
    
    
  • Appeal to probability
    Appeal to probability
    An appeal to probability is a justification based on probability, sometimes regarded as a logical fallacy, when an unwarranted assumption that something will happen, because it can happen, or when the odds of an occurrence are unrealistically played down in lieu of appropriate precaution.Although a...
    
    
  • Appeal to authority
  • Argument from ignorance
    Argument from ignorance
    Argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or "appeal to ignorance" , is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false, it is "generally accepted"...
    
     (appeal to ignorance
    Ignorance
    Ignorance is a state of being uninformed . The word ignorant is an adjective describing a person in the state of being unaware and is often used as an insult...
    
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  • Argumentum ad populum
    Argumentum ad populum
    In logic, an argumentum ad populum is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or most people believe it; which alleges: "If many believe so, it is so."...
    
     (appeal to belief
    Belief
    Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.-Belief, knowledge and epistemology:The terms belief and knowledge are used differently in philosophy....
    
    , appeal to the majority, appeal to the people)
  • Appeal to emotion
    Appeal to emotion
    Appeal to emotion is a potential fallacy which uses the manipulation of the recipient's emotions, rather than valid logic, to win an argument. The appeal to emotion fallacy uses emotions as the basis of an argument's position without factual evidence that logically supports the major ideas endorsed...
    
    
  • Appeal to flattery
    Appeal to flattery
    Appeal to flattery is a fallacy in which a person uses flattery, excessive compliments, in an attempt to win support for their side....
    
    
  • Appeal to fear
    Appeal to fear
    An appeal to fear is a fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for an idea by using deception and propaganda in attempts to increase fear and prejudice toward a competitor. The appeal to fear is common in marketing and politics...
    
    
  • Appeal to consequences
    Appeal to consequences
    Appeal to consequences, also known as argumentum ad consequentiam , is an argument that concludes a premise to be either true or false based on whether the premise leads to desirable or undesirable consequences...
    
    
  • Appeal to motive
    Appeal to motive
    Appeal to motive is a pattern of argument which consists in challenging a thesis by calling into question the motives of its proposer. It can be considered as a special case of the ad hominem circumstantial argument...
    
    
  • Appeal to pity
    Appeal to pity
    An appeal to pity is a fallacy in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting his or her opponent's feelings of pity or guilt. It is a specific kind of appeal to emotion....
    
    
  • Appeal to ridicule
    Appeal to ridicule
    Appeal to ridicule, also called appeal to mockery, the Horse Laugh, or reductio ad ridiculum , is a logical fallacy which presents the opponent's argument in a way that appears ridiculous, often to the extent of creating a straw man of the actual argument, rather than addressing the argument itself...
    
    
  • Appeal to spite
    Appeal to spite
    An appeal to spite is a fallacy in which someone attempts to win favor for an argument by exploiting existing feelings of bitterness, spite, or schadenfreude in the opposing party...
    
    
  • Argumentum ad baculum
    Argumentum ad baculum
    Argumentum ad baculum , also known as appeal to force, is an argument where force, coercion, or the threat of force, is given as a justification for a conclusion...
    
     (appeal to force, appeal to the stick)
  • Appeal to nature
    Appeal to nature
    An appeal to nature is a type of argument that depends on an understanding of nature as a source of intelligibility for its claims, and which relies on that understanding for its outcome...
    
    

Other uses

• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, an 1829 abolitionist pamphlet written by David Walker
  David Walker (abolitionist)
  David Walker was an outspoken African American activist who demanded the immediate end of slavery in the new nation...
  
  
• Appeal of 18 June, Charles de Gaulle
  Charles de Gaulle
  Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....
  
  's call for French resistance against Nazi Germany
  Nazi Germany
  Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
  
   after the Battle of France
  Battle of France
  In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb , German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and...
  
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• The Appeal
  The Appeal
  The Appeal is a 2008 novel by John Grisham, his twenty-first 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.
• The Commercial Appeal
  The Commercial Appeal
  The Commercial Appeal is the predominant daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by The E. W. Scripps Company, a major North American media company. Scripps also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in...
  
  , a daily newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee.
• The Mariam Appeal, a political campaign established in 1998.
• For an object's or person's appeal, see preference
  Preference
  -Definitions in different disciplines:The term “preferences” is used in a variety of related, but not identical, ways in the scientific literature. This makes it necessary to make explicit the sense in which the term is used in different social sciences....
  
   or Taste (sociology)
  Taste (sociology)
  Taste as an aesthetic, sociological, economic and anthropological concept refers to a cultural patterns of choice and preference. While taste is often understood as a biological concept, it can also be reasonably studied as a social or cultural phenomenon. Taste is about drawing distinctions...
  
  

• Appeal (cricket)
  Appeal (cricket)
  In the sport of cricket, an appeal is the act of a player on the fielding team asking an umpire for a decision regarding whether a batsman is out or not. According to the Laws of Cricket, an umpire may not rule a batsman out unless the fielding side appeals...
  
  , a request to an umpire for a ruling on whether a cricket batsman is out.
• An appeal play
  Appeal play
  In baseball, an appeal play occurs when a member of the defensive team calls the attention of an umpire to an infraction which he would otherwise ignore.-Appeal Play Situations:A runner shall be called out, after a successful live ball appeal, if he:...
  
  in baseball.