Act On Petition
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A form of summary proceeding formerly in use in the high court of admiralty, in England, in which the parties stated their respective cuses brietly, and supported their statements by affidavit.
2 Dod. Adm. 174, 184; 1 Hagg. Adm. 1, note.