A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

APPELLATIO,

an Appeal from any Sentence, when we are not satisfi'd with it. An Appeal, say the Lawyers, is nothing else, but a complaint made by a Person who has lost the Cause to a superiour Judg, against the In∣justice of an inferiour and subordinate. In the Roman Law, he who would not abide by a Sen∣tence, was oblig'd at the instant it was given, or at least in two or three days after, to declare, either vivâ voco or by writing, that he did ap∣peal from it; since that the time was limited to ten days, after which no Appeal was to be admitted. In France any one may appeal within the space of thirty years.

This Appeal was to be notified to the Judg and the adverse Party. If the Judg consented to the Appeal, he gave the Appellant a Wri∣ting containing a Summary of the Cause, and the Reasons of his Sentence, which he carried to the superiour Judg; and if he did not con∣sent, nevertheless he gave a Writing contain∣ing an account of the whole matter, and the Reasons why he would not consent nor admit the Appeal. But whether the subordinate Judg did consent to the Appeal or not, still the Ap∣pellant might always carry the Suit before a superiour Judg. This was a very good Custom tho it is not at present used in France.

In Civil matters none but he who had lost the Cause could appeal; but in criminal Cau∣ses, when a Man's Life was concern'd, any Person was admitted to bring an Appeal, tho he who was condemn'd did not desire it.