Definition of Petitions. Meaning of Petitions. Synonyms of Petitions

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Definition of Petitions

Petition
Petition Pe*ti"tion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petitioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Petitioning.] To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor. You have . . . petitioned all the gods for my prosperity. --Shak.
Petition
Petition Pe*ti"tion, v. i. To make a petition or solicitation.

Meaning of Petitions from wikipedia

- the UK Parliament petitions website, the forerunner of which was set up in 2006. Such online petitions are a new form of a petition becoming commonplace...
- Curative Petition is the last chance available for the protection from the compensation of injustice in the court after the review petition is dismissed...
- forum-based petitions. However, petition hosts were criticized for their lax requirements from users who created or signed such petitions: petitions were often...
- encourages discharge petitions that exist merely to take a public stand on an issue. Since secrecy was removed in the U.S. House, thirty petitions have attained...
- "opposition") Petitions of 1897 were a protest against the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. Also referred to as the "monster petition". It was organized...
- dismissed all other 10 review petitions. Later on the Government of India applied for the withdrawal of the review petition and same was accepted by the...
- with all USCIS petitions, the person who submits the petition is called the petitioner and the relative on whose behalf the petition is made is called...
- The Millenary Petition was a list of requests given to James I by Puritans in 1603 when he was travelling to London in order to claim the English throne...
- (that is, deactivated) all petitions in progress on the 'We the People' site. New petitions were created, but only two petitions—both created on Inauguration...
- 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...