Appeal vs. Revision — What's the Difference?

In law, an appeal is the process in which cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. Appeals function both as a process for error correction as well as a process of clarifying and interpreting law.

The action of revising

An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.

The act or process of revising.

A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision

A revised or new version, as of a book or other written material.

A higher court's review of the correctness of a decision by a lower court.

(uncountable) The process of revising:

A case so reviewed.

The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.

A request for a higher court to review the decision of a lower court.

The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one′s notes in preparation for a test or examination.

The power of attracting or of arousing interest

(countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.

To make an earnest or urgent request, as for help.

(countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.

To have recourse, as for corroboration; resort

To provide with a new vision.

(Law) To make or request an appeal.

The act of revising; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.

To be attractive or interesting

That which is made by revising.

To request for an appeal of (a case) to a higher court for rehearing.

The act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification);

(law)

The act of rewriting something

An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.

Something that has been written again;

The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.

A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.

(historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).

(historical) A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.

(historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).

A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.

(cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.

(figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.

(figuratively) A power to attract or interest.

(rhetoric) A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.

(historical) A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.

(law)

(intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.

To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).

To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).

Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.

Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).

(intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.

Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".

(intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.

To have recourse or resort to some physical means.

To be attractive.

To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.

To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

To summon; to challenge.

To invoke.

To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reëxamination of for decision.

To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request.

An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reëxamination or review.

A summons to answer to a charge.

A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty.

Resort to physical means; recourse.

Earnest or urgent request;

Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates;

(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial;

Request for a sum of money;

Take a court case to a higher court for review;

Request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection;

Be attractive to;

Challenge (a decision);

Cite as an authority; resort to;