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Definition of Petitioners
1. petitioner [n] - See also: petitioner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petitioners
Literary usage of Petitioners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Madame Gaspard, afterwards the wife of De Marchais, died in France, May 17, 1830,
leaving no children by De Marchais, but leaving the female petitioners, ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... said lands and the laying out of said new road over said lands greatly
inconveniences your petitioners in the management and cultivation of said lands, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1783)
"... in the beginning of the year i ;,»i demanded the immediate payment of 6oo,oool.
ai a lhare of three- fourths of pail profits) and that the petitioners ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"Order on a provisional assignee to deliver tip short bills, leaving a sufficient
amount to answer acceptances on account of the petitioners, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by James Russell, Great Britain Court of Chancery, James William Mylne, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1832)
"The petition, after setting forth these facts, stated, that the mother of the
petitioners was dead, and that the petitioners was left wholly unprovided for, ..."
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