appellancy

English[edit]

appellancy (uncountable)

Capability of appeal.
- 2013, E. C. Spary, Eating the Enlightenment, page 36:
  Indeed, the faculty seems to have acquired something of a reputation for supporting appellancy.
- 2016, Ulrich L. Lehner, Richard A. Muller, A.G. Roeber, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800:
  . At this point Jansenism truly becomes synonymous with a political “movement,” and “appellancy” becomes a new form of politics, not theology, whose actual core is ambiguous apart from its notable destabilizing character.
(law) A form of plea bargain in which someone is granted immunity or a reduced sentence in return for providing testimony to convict their accomplices.
- 2016, Elizabeth Elliott ·, Remembering Boethius:
  As Paul Strohm argues, the absence of evidence to suggest that Usk was formally charged with any crime at this juncture indicates a creative use of the concept of appellancy, which typically enabled felons to mitigate their punishment through confession and the provision of testimony contributing to the conviction of their accomplices.