devolutive

Every appeal, when admissible, has an effect called devolutive (appellatio in devolutivo), consisting in this, that through the law there devolves on the appellate judge the right to take cognizance of, and also to decide, the case in question.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Once the appellate judge has ascertained that the appellant has legitimately appealed, and that the appeal is not one of those that have only a devolutive effect, he has the right to send to the judge appellee letters called inhibitory, forbidding him to take further action in the case.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

In cases not excepted in the preceding paragraphs the general rule is that judicial appeals, besides having the devolutive effect common to all appeals, have also a suspensive effect.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

An appeal has also only a devolutive effect when the judge appellee has acted in virtue of powers granted to him with the clause appellatione remotâ, provided the case is not one of those expressly mentioned by the law as admitting an appeal.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

An appeal, devolutive in character, to the Holy See, should the case require it, is granted from the bishop's decision to divide a parish or mission.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Their appeal from the ordinary's interpretation of synodal statutes in matters pertaining to common law has a devolutive effect only; in matters pertaining to regulars as such, owing to their exemption, an appeal begets a suspensive effect.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

+ (b) In the cases which it enumerates it forbids in general that appeals should have a suspensive effect, but it does not do away with the devolutive effect, unless a case, even according to the preceding legislation, would admit of no appeal at all (§ 38).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913