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Ranters
Ranters name given to the adherents of an antinomian movement in England about the time of the Commonwealth and Protectorate (1649-59). Its principal teaching was pantheistic, that God is present in nature. The Ranters appealed to the inner experience of Jesus and denied the authority of Scripture.... Read more
Nichiren
Nichiren [Jap.,=sun lotus], 1222-82, Japanese Buddhist priest, founder of Nichiren Buddhism. Of humble birth, Nichiren (whose given name was Zennichimaro) early became a monk, and traveled to many temples in search of true Buddhism. In 1253, convinced that contemporary Buddhism was inadequate for a... Read more
bail
bail in law, procurement of release from prison of a person awaiting trial or an appeal, by the deposit of security to insure his submission at the required time to legal authority. The monetary value of the security—known also as the bail, or, more accurately, the bail bond—is set by t... Read more
Ronald Firbank
Ronald Firbank (Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank), 1886-1926, English author. Of a delicate and eccentric nature, Firbank lived the life of a leisured aesthete. His novels, which have appealed to a small but appreciative audience, include Vainglory (1915), Valmouth (1919), Prancing Nigger (1924... Read more
William Squire Kenyon
William Squire Kenyon 1869-1933, U.S. Senator (1911-22) from Iowa, b. Elyria, Ohio. He practiced law at Fort Dodge, Iowa, was county prosecutor, and became a state district court judge before serving (1910-11) as assistant to the U.S. Attorney General. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1911 and ... Read more
Samuel Woodworth
Samuel Woodworth 1784-1842, American author, b. Scituate, Mass. He edited (1823-24) the New York Mirror and was author of the song "The Old Oaken Bucket." His comedy The Forest Rose (1825) was one of the most popular American plays before the Civil War. ... Read more
Albert Bigelow Paine
Albert Bigelow Paine 1861-1937, American author, b. New Bedford, Mass. He is best remembered as the author of the authorized biography of Mark Twain (3 vol., 1912) and as the editor of Twain's letters (1917). Among his other works are several children's books, including The Hollow Tree and The A... Read more
Constitutions of Clarendon
Constitutions of Clarendon 1164, articles issued by King Henry II of England at the Council of Clarendon defining the customs governing relations between church and state. In the anarchic conditions of the previous reign, the church had extended its jurisdiction in various ways, and it was the ki... Read more
Mafia
Mafia , name given to a number of organized groups of Sicilian brigands in the 19th and 20th cent. Unlike the Camorra in Naples, the Mafia had no hierarchic organization; each group operated on its own. The Mafia originated in feudal times, when lords hired brigands to guard their estates in excha... Read more
J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling (Joanne Kathleen Rowling) , 1965-, English author known for her popular children's books, b. Chipping Sodbury, grad. Exeter Univ. (1986). While unemployed she completed her first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1996), a vivid tale of a young wizard and his friends, ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Appeal to authority"

Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals (TECA) in 1971, 85 Stat...out of the Emergency Court of Appeals (1942 – 61), which...627), which granted it authority over controversies arising...the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal (D.C...
Federal Courts
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...federal courts. The authority of federal courts is...the U.S. courts of appeal (including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...the Court of Military Appeals was created pursuant...federal system. An appeal from a judgment rendered...taken to the court of appeals in the ...
court
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...courts of limited territorial authority, administering customary...rank and acted as a court of appeals. Soon itinerant royal courts...central courts was to hear appeals from the circuit courts...Wales consist of the Court of Appeal, the High Court (with civil...s (or Queen's) Bench. ...
Lower Federal Courts
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...the intermediate courts of appeal . At the apex sits the U...courts. These courts have authority to hear and decide virtually...provided an opportunity to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court...years. Unlike the courts of appeals and the Supreme Court, only...and two from the court of appeals. ...
Judiciary Act of 1891
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...intermediate federal courts of appeal, this act constituted the...Court was the only federal appeals court. In addition to their...The new Circuit Courts of Appeal , renamed Courts of Appeal...pruned, but the right of appeal was preserved in many cases...Supreme Court had discretionary ...
Wallace v. Jaffree
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...in the public schools. The appeal was argued before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed Judge Hand...explicit language, the Court of Appeals reiterated that the Supreme Court is the ultimate authority on the interpretation of the...the ruling of the Court of Appeals for ...
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, making her the country...her 25 years on the Court of Appeals she handled cases dealing with...conflicts between federal and state authority. One noted trial in 1937...the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked on her memoirs...
Litigation
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...court, the losing party may appeal the decision within a specified...have intermediate courts of appeal that hear most civil appeals. The appellate court reviews...arguments of the parties on appeal and determines whether the...prevailing party is then given the authority to collect damages ...
Supreme Court
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...with high powers and broad authority within its jurisdiction...supreme courts permit direct appeal, or appeal by right, on a limited set of cases. At the state level, appeals of first-degree murder and...the intermediate court of appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court...
Oliver Ellsworth
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...with marine affairs by hearing appeals from the Admiralty courts of various states. The Committee of Appeals was an important step toward...effectiveness and judicial authority were soon tested by the noted...came before the Committee of Appeals only two weeks after Ellsworth...

Dictionary entries related to "Appeal to authority"

Appeals from Colonial Courts
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...courts were suspended. Such appeals were both costly and protracted...in litigation brought on appeal. For example, the Virginia clergy appealed to English authorities to disallow the Two Penny...Privy Council upheld the appeal and disallowed the law...of intestate estates. In appeals of ...
appeal
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, who is said to have been the subject of such an appeal. appeal to Caesar appeal to the highest possible authority, originally with reference to the claim made by the apostle Paul to have his case heard...
appeals
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church appeals. Appeals by clergy and laity to authorities higher than their diocesan bishops were based on Roman civil...the time of Henry II successive kings had tried to limit appeals to Rome; they were finally abolished in 1534 by Henry VIII...
Occupational Safety and Health Act
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...government aggressively asserted its authority to regulate private business...sanctions, and to adjudicate appeals. Republicans wanted to establish...authority to decide enforcement appeals. Republicans claimed they...Commission, would adjudicate appeals from businesses fined or otherwise...
Common Sense
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...criticized by Immanuel Kant for its "appeal to the opinion of the multitude...judgment is much more like reasoned appeal to a self-evident principle...Berkeleyan idealism, yet both authors appeal directly to the authority of common sense. These difficulties...
Pragmatism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...difficulties of traditional appeals to correspondence and coherence...truth, instead, typically appeal to the practical consequences...such beliefs: tenacity, authority, an a priori method, and...experimentation. Tenacity and authority refer to the clinging to old...belief is fixed solely by an ...
anti-Semitism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...than the Soviet Union as their ultimate authority. From the 1980s, in some Western European...Party generated considerable electoral appeal, even though this was the result more...against immigrants. Furthermore, the appeal of such parties was based on general popular...
petition
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular...x220E;  an appeal or request, esp. a solemn...present a formal request to (an authority) with respect to a particular...xA0; make a solemn or humble appeal to (a figure of authority...
Prize Courts
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...matters belongs to the federal district courts, with the right of appeal to the circuit court of appeals and ultimately the Supreme Court. The domestic courts have the authority to appoint special prize commissioners to act abroad. An international...
Supreme Court
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Court is the final judicial authority in the U.S. system of government...the power to hear cases on appeal from the Federal appellate...Court is the final judicial authority in American government, it...While litigants may never appeal Supreme Court decisions to...

Thesaurus entries related to "Appeal to authority"

beg
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...implore, entreat, plead with, appeal to, supplicate, pray to, importune...urgency, as well as an emotional appeal (he beseeched her to tell the...invitation). Petition suggests an appeal to authority (to petition the government to...
pull
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...lure, allurement, enticement, magnetism, temptation, fascination, appeal.   3. he has a lot of pull in finance synonyms : influence, sway, power, authority, say, prestige, standing, weight, leverage, muscle, teeth, clout...

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IRS appeals - maintaining independence, balancing enforcement, and improving currency.
Magazine article from: Tax Executive; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...using a similar approach. Appeals was not involved in the development...expressed concern that the authority to settle issues has been taken away from the individual Appeals Officers (AO) in many instances...there are approximately 30 Appeals Coordinated Issues (ACIs...
Appeals in the 1990s: "new directions." (From the IRS Appeals: 1992 NSPA National Issues Conference)
Magazine article from: The National Public Accountant; 7/1/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...within that region. ROLE OF APPEALS IN U.S. INCOME TAX PROCEDURE...U.S. federal income tax appeal procedure is shown on the...page. Most cases come to Appeals when tax adjustments or penalties...refund claim. Independence. Appeals is the only administrative...which has been delegated the ...
Direct appeals from bankruptcy courts to the courts of appeals: the experience after two years.
Magazine article from: Journal of Appellate Practice and Process; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...COURT CERTIFICATION OF DIRECT APPEALS There are two ways for the...12) to certify a direct appeal. The lower court, acting...which there is no controlling authority from the relevant court of appeals or the Supreme Court; * The...decisions; or * An immediate appeal from the judgment or ...
Appeals Can Override TAMs.
Magazine article from: The Bond Buyer; 2/12/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...gives appeals officers the authority to disagree with the chief...officials who will handle all bond appeals cases. Robbins will be responsible...comments and further remarks that appeals will consider socalled litigation...lawyers have raised about the appeals process. Since Congress ...
To appeal or not to appeal - that is the client's question.
Magazine article from: Florida Bar Journal; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...greater chance of reversal and appeals from jury verdicts presenting...the potential success of an appeal include: Was each potential...error. Failing to find legal authority to support the client's...current law, but such an appeal presents a greater challenge...not to advance a frivolous ...
Harrisburg assessment appeals set officials on edge
Magazine article from: Central Penn Business Journal; 4/17/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...treasury, he said. The largest appeal involves the building at 100...to say about his client's appeal. "I try to work my cases...Dauphin County Assessment Appeals Board relies on the party...said the various assessment-appeals systems in counties around...to process cases. Taxing ...
Appeal Commissioners; Pre-Budget submission calls for publication of all decisions.(Ireland. Freedom of Information Act 1997)(Ireland. Taxes Consolidation Act 1997)
Magazine article from: Accountancy Ireland; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...states that the 'Office of the Appeal Commissioners is not a tribunal...if we are to follow the legal authorities, the Office of the Appeal Commissioners is indeed a tribunal...on points put forward by the Appeal Commissioners at the Public...
Court Of Appeal Decides Grounds On Which The Appeal Panel Of The NSW Workers Compensation Commission Can Revoke A Medical Assessment Certification Case Note.(Workplace Injury Management Act 1998)(Case overview)
News Wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing; 7/9/2008; 700+ words ; Siddik v WorkCover Authority of NSW [2008] NSW CA 116 Mason...Brief The New South Wales Court of Appeal has decided that the Appeal Panel of the Workers Compensation...a decision being made that the Appeal Panel intends to rely upon a fresh...
Last appeal for mediation.
Magazine article from: The Tax Adviser; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...hands off" the case to an Appeals officer (AO) in a lengthy...When the file is ready and the Appeals process begins, the AO's...should have settlement approval authority? Under the current procedure...Specialization Program Issues and Appeals Coordinated Issues procedures...
Appeal of Permit Rejected Despite Lack of Notice.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Land Use Law Report; 7/4/2001; 700+ words ; ...an administrative appeal because it was not...Zoning Board of Appeals of Branford, No...not require local authorities to give notice of...zoning board of appeals. Trial Court Holds Appeal Timely The board...ruled Munroe's appeal was timely, despite...compliance. The appeals ...