Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Petitioning; soliciting; begging; petitionary.
- In Scots law, an action by which something is sought to be decreed by the judge in consequence of a right of property or a right of credit in the pursuer, including all actions on personal contracts by which the grantor has become bound to pay or to perform.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.
- adjective (Admiralty Law) a suit in which the mere title to property is litigated and sought to be enforced, as distinguished from a
possessory suit ; also (Scots Law), a suit wherein the plaintiff claims something as due him by the defendant.
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- adjective
petitioning ,soliciting ,begging ,petitionary
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Examples
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Actions were petitory, when they sought to recover the very thing in controversy, or possessory, where the right of possession only was in issue.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Perhaps [209] another fact besides those which have been mentioned has influenced this reasoning, and that is the accurate division between possessory and petitory actions or defences in Continental procedure.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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