Appealable

Appealable

What does Appealable mean in American Law?

The definition of Appealable in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

An action by a lower tribunal which can be appealed. Not all lower court actions, even formal orders, are immediately appealable in most jurisdictions, it being considered better not to interrupt and delay the trial for the appeal of an interlocutory order, but to have everything reviewed at once at the end. But since some decisions would render a trial unnecessary, and that too would save time and expense, there is an unavoidable tension between allowing the immediate appeals of certain trial-court rulings, and forbidding them. See, e.g., Interlocutory Appeals Act for a statute trying to cope with the tension.


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