Relating to appeals.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, &c. the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction: In all other cases before mentioned, the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction.-Constitut. of the U. States, Art. 3.
The king of France is not the fountain of justice; the judges neither the original nor the appellate are of his nomination.--Burke, Revolution.
For a fuller account of this word, about which there has been much discussion by lexicographers, see Mr. Pickering's Vocabulary, where many authorities are cited. It was first given by Mason in his supplement to Johnson's Dictionary, and was afterwards adopted by Todd.