Appeal (disambiguation)

Appeal may refer to:

Law

• Appeal – in law an appeal is a challenge of a judicial judgement to a higher authority, usually called an appellate court.
  • Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office
  • Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, in the United States
• Appeal (motion) – in parliamentary procedure 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 novelty
  • Appeal to probability
  • Appeal to authority
  • Argument from ignorance (appeal to ignorance)
  • Argumentum ad populum (appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to the people)
  • Appeal to emotion
  • Appeal to flattery
  • Appeal to fear
  • Appeal to consequences
  • Appeal to motive
  • Appeal to pity
  • Appeal to ridicule
  • Appeal to spite
  • Argumentum ad baculum (appeal to force, appeal to the stick)
  • Appeal to nature

Other uses

• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, an 1829 abolitionist pamphlet written by David Walker
• Appeal of 18 June, Charles de Gaulle's call for French resistance against Nazi Germany after the Battle of France.
• The Appeal, a novel by John Grisham.
• The Commercial Appeal, 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 or Taste (sociology)

In sports:

• Appeal (cricket), a request to an umpire for a ruling on whether a cricket batsman is out.
• An appeal play in baseball.