(n)appeal(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial“their appeal was denied in the superior court”
(v)invoke, appealcite as an authority; resort to“He invoked the law that would save him”, “I appealed to the law of 1900”, “She invoked an ancient law”