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Definition of Petitioning
1. n. The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.
Definition of Petitioning
1. Verb. (present participle of petition) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petitioning
1. petition [v] - See also: petition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petitioning
Literary usage of Petitioning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"A fee of $5000 to attorneys for petitioning creditors was allowed where the estate
created by the acts of such attorneys approximated $15000 In ..."
2. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"Leave of court to petitioning creditors to withdraw an involuntary petition will
be refused ... Or, perhaps, where any of the other petitioning creditors ..."
3. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"Evidence to show that the petitioning creditor's debt was a fraud and ...
The deposition of the petitioning creditor (on bills drawn and indorsed by the ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery in the by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Beames (1818)
"si Creditor in taking out the Commission, in order to de- ls not a Trader feat
the Execution ; that there was no good petitioning within the Creditor's Debt ..."
5. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Day (1824)
"The petitioning creditor's debt is sufficiently proved by entries in the ...
But an account signed by a bankrupt, is not evidence of his petitioning ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, in the by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon, John Beames, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1822)
"Mr. Heald, for the petitioning Creditor, expressed his consent. ... Where the
petitioning creditor consents, it seems proper, that the ground of his consent ..."
7. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1875)
"sation to promote measures of economical and parliamentary reform, called into
activity commence, a general system of petitioning,—com- the modem ifi,A, ..."
8. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"(1) The assignees must prove the debt of the petitioning ere- Proof of ditor,
... So, if the debt of the petitioning creditor is on a bill of exchange, ..."
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