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An appeal is the process in law by which cases are reviewed and parties request a formal change to an official decision.

Appeal may also refer to:

Politics and law

• Appeal (motion), in parliamentary procedure a challenge of the chair's ruling
• Appeal of 18 June, Charles de Gaulle's 1940 call for French resistance against Nazi Germany
• Mariam Appeal, a political campaign established in 1998
• Criminal appeal, an ancient, private right of criminal prosecution in common-law jurisdictions

Publications and media

• The Appeal, a novel by John Grisham
• Appeal, an anti-slavery document by abolitionist David Walker
• The Commercial Appeal, a daily newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee
• Appeal to Reason (newspaper), a weekly left-wing political newspaper in the US until 1922
• The Appeal, English title of the 1970 animated short film by Ryszard Czekała, Apel
• The Appeal, online news site
• The Appeal (newspaper)

Other uses

• Appeal Isimirie, Nigerian taekwondo practitioner
• Appeal (cricket), a request to an umpire for a ruling on whether a cricket batter is out
• Appeal play, in baseball when a member of the defensive team calls the attention of an umpire to an infraction
• Rhetorical appeals, devices used in rhetoric to persuade an audience, namely ethos, logos, and pathos
• Sex appeal, the quality of arousing attraction on the basis of sexual desire

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Appeal
• Appellate Division (disambiguation)
• Justice of Appeal (disambiguation)
• Lord of Appeal (disambiguation)
• Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, former administrative law body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Informal fallacy, reasoning error through appeal to something other than logical argument
• Preference, choosing between alternatives
• Taste (sociology), an individual's personal and cultural patterns of choice and preference

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