-LATIN: apparere, to appear. Apparitors are so-called from the principal branch in their office, which consists in summoning persons to appear. They are officers of the ecclesiastical courts appointed to execute the proper orders and decrees of the court. Phillim. Ecc. L. 1246. APPARURA.-In old English law the apparura were furniture, implements, tackle or apparel. Carucarum apparura, plough-tackle.- Cowell. APPEAL.- Appeal, in the sense of a criminal proceeding, comes from the Norman-French apel, from appeler, to accuse, (Britt. 38b.) from the Latin appellare, to call upon. Appeal, in the modern sense, seems to have come direct from the Latin appellare (which has the same meaning. Dig xlix.) through the ecclesiastical courts. (Co. Litt. 287 b.) Its use in the temporal courts seems quite modern, the old terms being error" and "rehearing." 1. General meaning.--In its most general sense an appeal is a proceeding taken to rectify an erroneous decision of a court by submitting the question to a of procedure on appeal requires (1) an application by the party aggrieved to the appellate court to rehear his cause; (2) the allowance of the appeal by the higher court; (3) the citing of the adverse party to appear in the appellate court by service of the notice of appeal, notice of argument, &c.; (4) the obtaining from the lower court, and filing in the higher court, the papers constituting the record (q. v.) of the case; and (5) the argument or hearing before the court in banc. Inasmuch as the appeal, when perfected, generally annuls the judgment appealed from, so that the party hitherto successful can take no action to enforce it pending the appeal, the statutes generally require the appellant to give a bond or undertaking conditioned for the payment or performance of the judgment to be finally rendered by the appellate court, or, in default of such security, the respondent may proceed to enforce his judgment; but, in the latter case, he does so at his peril, for in case of the reversal of the judgment, he may be compelled to make restitution, and perhaps be liable also in damages. The statutes of the several States regulating the right to appeal, and the subsequent procedure, are so numerous, and differ so greatly, that space cannot be afforded them here the English practice is out lined below.* * Court of Appeal.-In the Supreme Court of Ac. 214; Rules of Court Iviii.) Appeals can Judicature, every appeal from a judgment or also be brought on interlocutory proceedings in order of the High Court to the Court of Appeal chambers, from the master, chief clerk or disis in the nature of a rehearing, and is brought trict registrar, to the judge in chambers. In the by a simple motion in the Court of Appeal, askCommon Law Divisions, an appeal lies from the ing that the judgment or order complained of judge in chambers to the Divisional Court, and may be reversed, discharged or varied. (Sm. thence to the Court of Appeal (Rules of Court