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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:694

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.

District judges and judges of the courts of appeal shall be reimbursed actual traveling and hotel expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties.  The supreme court, by rule, shall define the conditions under which such allowances will be granted.  No allowance shall be granted for round trips of less than ten miles from the judge’s bona fide residence to the place or places where he performs the official duties of his office.  

Amended by Acts 1956, No. 35, §1; Acts 1972, No. 401, §1; Acts 1974, No. 536, §1; Acts 1975, No. 743, §3, eff. Aug.  1, 1975; Acts 1979, No. 315, §1.