title: Appeal (disambiguation)
text: # Appeal (disambiguation)
  
  An appeal is the process in law by which cases are reviewed and parties request a formal change to an official decision.
  
  Appeal may also refer to:
  
  ## Politics and law
  
  * Appeal (motion), in parliamentary procedure a challenge of the chair's ruling
  * Appeal of 18 June, Charles de Gaulle's 1940 call for French resistance against Nazi Germany
  * Mariam Appeal, a political campaign established in 1998
  * Criminal appeal, an ancient, private right of criminal prosecution in common-law jurisdictions
  
  ## Publications and media
  
  * The Appeal, a novel by John Grisham
  * Appeal, an anti-slavery document by abolitionist David Walker
  * The Commercial Appeal, a daily newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee
  * Appeal to Reason (newspaper), a weekly left-wing political newspaper in the US until 1922
  * The Appeal, English title of the 1970 animated short film by Ryszard Czekała, Apel
  * The Appeal, online news site
  * The Appeal (newspaper)
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Appeal Isimirie, Nigerian taekwondo practitioner
  * Appeal (cricket), a request to an umpire for a ruling on whether a cricket batter is out
  * Appeal play, in baseball when a member of the defensive team calls the attention of an umpire to an infraction
  * Rhetorical appeals, devices used in rhetoric to persuade an audience, namely ethos, logos, and pathos
  * Sex appeal, the quality of arousing attraction on the basis of sexual desire
  