Note 253 — Book VII.
John Beames translation
Appeletur de Felonia. “Appellum,” says Sir Edward Coke, “signifies an accusation, and, therefore, to appeal a man is as much as to accuse him.” The word appellum is derived of appeller to call: because, appellans vocat reum in judicium, he calleth the Defendant to judgment. (Co. Litt. 287. b. See also 391. a. and Cowell ad voc.) Appeals were known to the Normans. (Grand Custum. c. 68.)