The judges' decision might, however, be appealed against.
She escaped to the castle of Canossa, where the great count of Tuscany espoused her cause, and appealed in her behalf to Otto the Saxon.
The great Italian nobles, in their turn, appealed to Germany.
They appealed powerfully to the imagination and the religious sense.
His compatriots had already freed themselves from the yoke of Genoa, thanks to Pasquale Paoli; but in 1764 that republic appealed to Louis XV.