- A
petition is a
request to do something, most
commonly addressed to a
government official or
public entity.
Petitions to a
deity are a form of prayer...
- An
online petition (or
Internet petition, or e-
petition) is a form of
petition which is
signed online,
usually through a form on a website.
Visitors to...
- screenwriters, and
producers signed a
petition,
started by Bernard-Henri Lévy,
which urged Polanski's release. The
petition was
signed by many
prominent individuals...
-
Curative Petition is the last
chance available for the
protection from the
compensation of
injustice in the
court after the
review petition is dismissed...
- The
right to
petition government for
redress of
grievances is the
right to make a
complaint to, or s**** the ****istance of, one's government,
without fear...
- The
Petition of Right, p****ed on 7 June 1628, is an
English constitutional do****ent
setting out
specific individual protections against the state, reportedly...
- In
English law, a
petition of
right was a
remedy available to
subjects to
recover property from the Crown.
Before the
Crown Proceedings Act 1947, the British...
- The
Olive Branch Petition was
adopted by the
Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and
signed on July 8, 1775 in a
final attempt to
avoid war between...
- In 1977 and 1979,
several petitions were
signed by a
number of
prominent French intellectuals, doctors, and
psychologists calling for
reforms to or the...
- In
United States parliamentary procedure, a
discharge petition is a
means of
bringing a bill out of
committee and to the
floor for
consideration without...
