Opinion ID: 1694480
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Text: The right of appeal is statutory... . Absent a statutory basis for appeal, there is no right to appeal. Matter of Estate of Spencer, 106 Idaho 316, 318, 678 P.2d 108, 110 (1984). All appeals are pure creatures of statute... . Furthermore, an appellate tribunal derives its jurisdiction from the law. It cannot be acquired by estoppel or consent alone. Antrim v. Civil Service Com'n of City of Des Moines, 261 Iowa 396, 154 N.W.2d 711, 714 (1967). It is fundamental that the right of appeal is purely statutory and may be granted or denied by the legislature as it determines. Unless the statute makes provision therefor, expressly or by plain implication, there is no right of appeal. Boomhower v. Cerro Gordo County Board of Adjust., 163 N.W.2d 75, 76 (Iowa 1968).