appellate jurisdictio

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appellate jurisdictio - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  APPELLATE JURISDICTION. The jurisdiction which a superior court has to bear
  appeals of causes which have been tried in inferior courts. It differs from
  original jurisdiction, which is the power to entertain suits instituted in
  the first in stance. Vide Jurisdiction; Original jurisdiction.