Terms Used In Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure 3831

  • 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.

An appeal from a judgment ordering the release of a person from custody or placing him in the custody of another person shall not suspend the execution of the judgment.

Such an appeal shall be taken only within thirty days from the applicable dates provided in Article 2087(A).

Amended by Acts 1974, No. 132, §1.