Permissible appellant and respondent
§ 5511. Permissible appellant and respondent. An aggrieved party or a person substituted for him may appeal from any appealable judgment or order except one entered upon the default of the aggrieved party. He shall be designated as the appellant and the adverse party as the respondent.
Only an aggrieved party (someone the judgment actually hurt) — or a person substituted for him — may appeal. ★ You cannot appeal a judgment entered on your own default. The one appealing is the appellant; the other side is the respondent.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 2 — The JG-22 CPLR and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.