revisory

comparative more revisory · superlative most revisory

1. Having the power or purpose to revise or review.

   An appellate jurisdiction , therefore , that acts , and is acted upon alternatively , in the exercise of an independent revisory authority , must have the means , and can scarcely fail to possess the will , to give it a full and satisfactory review

   1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States