Usually means: Upholding a decision by appeal.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word affirmance:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. affirmance: Merriam-Webster
  2. affirmance: Collins English Dictionary
  3. affirmance: Wordnik
  4. affirmance: Wiktionary
  5. affirmance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. affirmance: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Affirmance, affirmance: Dictionary.com
  8. Affirmance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. affirmance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Affirmance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. affirmance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. affirmance: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Affirmance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. affirmance: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. affirmance: Legal dictionary

(Note: See affirm as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (affirmance)

noun:  (uncountable) The act of affirming, affirmation
noun:  (countable, law) A decision upholding the decision of a lower court or agency

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