affirmance
nounEtymology Either affirm + -ance or from Old French afermance
1
The act of affirming, affirmation
2
Law A decision upholding the decision of a lower court or agency
- Of these 248 appeals the Appellate Division reviewed 4, rendering 3 affirmances and 1 reversal, 75% affirmances, 25% reversals.1934, Report of the Commission on the Administration of Justice in New York State, page 388:
- The District [of Columbia] authored an amicus brief on behalf of 18 states urging affirmance.2021, Harrison Stark and Loren Alikhan, A false choice between state sovereignty and multi-racial democracy, in: SCOTUSblog (Feb 24 2021)
- Derived terms
- disaffirmance, reaffirmance
- Coordinate terms
- reversal