Appeal (disambiguation)
# Appeal (disambiguation)

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
