{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appellate-jurisdiction-act-1876-repealed/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appellate-jurisdiction-act-1876-repealed/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/39-40/59",
  "legislation_title": "Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appellate-jurisdiction-act-1876-repealed",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Form of appeal to House of Lords.",
  "text": "Every appeal shall be brought by way of petition to the House of Lords, praying that the matter of the order or judgment appealed against may be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in her Court of Parliament, in order that the said Court may determine what of right, and according to the law and custom of this realm, ought to be done in the subject-matter of such appeal.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4 extended by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23, SIF 38), s. 42(3) and Administration of Justice Act 1969 (c.58, SIF 37), s. 14(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 3 excluded by Foreign Compensation Act 1969 (c. 20), s. 3(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/39-40/59/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:47:03.615104+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}