Terms Used In CFR > Title 48 > Chapter 25 > Subchapter C - Contracting Methods and Contract Types

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.