Petition
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
A written motion to a court.
1. V. Petition de Droit. 2.
A parliamentary liberties of the people, assented to by tioning creditor: the one who institutes adjudication of a bankrupt.