Riding circuit involved acting as appeals court judges around the state in addition to the supreme court functions of ultimate appeal, a common practice in early American courts.
There was then widespread agreement that the function of the criminal appeal was to assure that the appropriate judges were giving visible attention to all convictions to assure that they were justified.
In fact, research demonstrates that in US culture it is common for women to be sexually objectified by others or valued as a function of their sexual appeal and this is evident in various types of media (Aubrey, 2006; Graff et al., 2013; Vandenbosch, Vervloessen, & Eggermont, 2013).
It also functioned as the court of appeals, dealing with cases that were not resolved by the lower courts.
But perhaps MR has another function: to slow the rate of appeals by making it as difficult as possible for claimants to proceed.
Our rule permits us to carry out our normal function of reviewing possible misapplications of law by the courts of appeals without having to resort to extraordinary remedies.
One attempt to distinguish constructivism from both realism and anti-realism appeals to the function of concepts (Korsgaard 2003).
Another proposal shuns the metaphysical questions concerning the nature of meaning and appeals to the function of meaning statements in our practices (Lance & O'Leary Hawthorne 1997).
The function of the Federal Supreme Court is to hear appeals against rulings of cantonal or federal courts.
The authors of [35] investigate the visual appeal as a function of the fractal dimension, and they establish three intervals: [1.1 1.2] low preference, [1.3 1.5] high preference, and [1.6 1.9] low preference.
