4.3 The Appeal (Munaravedanpatra)

The purpose: the higher court's ask — the lower decision's challenge on the error's grounds. The anatomy (drafting template): The cause-title — the appellate court; the appellant's and the respondent's identification; the lower court's decision's identification (the court, the case number, the date — the challenged judgment's hook); The judgment's summary — the lower court's findings in brief (what was decided and why — the appeal's target); The grounds of appeal — numbered, each ground a distinct error: the law's misinterpretation; the finding's perversity (the evidence's contradiction); the procedure's breach; the jurisdiction's excess — the ground's craft: the error shown, not the disappointment expressed; The facts' statement — the appeal's own concise version (the grounds' factual base); The prayer — the lower judgment's setting aside; the relief's grant (the first-instance decree's restoration, the acquittal, the modification); The stay request — where the judgment's execution would end the matter meanwhile (the operation's suspension); The annexes — the challenged judgment's certified copy (the appeal's condition); the documents' set; the verification and the vakalatnama. Craft rules: the grounds are the appeal's engine — the first ground the strongest; the new-plea's limit (the appellate law's facts-and-law divide — LAW 302's companion); the limitation's respect (the appeal's clock — the jurisdictional fact).