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Definition of Petitory
1. a. Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.
Definition of Petitory
1. Adjective. petitioning, soliciting, begging, petitionary ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petitory
1. petitioning [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petitory
Literary usage of Petitory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"The action of mails and duties, or for the payment of the rents and profits of
a land-estate, is sometimes petitory, and sometimes possessory. ..."
2. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1856)
"I concur in regard to the petitory conclusion. As to the other I see nothing
wrong, if it is not meant to be a substantive declaratory conclusion, ..."
3. The Lower Canada Jurist: Collection de Décisions Du Bas Canada by Strachan Bethune, John Sprott Archibald, William Hey, John Stuart Buchan (1862)
"I have never known it, to be even contended that a Plaintiff, in a petitory
action, could succeed upon a title, which the Defendant had no opportunity of ..."
4. Lower Canada Reports =: Décisions Des Tribunaux Du Bas-Canada by Simon Lelièvre (1856)
"Held :—I. That a defendant who has made permanent and durable improvements upon
a lot of land sought to be recovered by petitory action, has aright to be ..."
5. Federal Procedure at Law: A Treatise on the Procedure in Suits at Common Law by Chrisenberry Lee Bates (1908)
"Jurisdiction of petitory and possessory suits.—The district courts have exclusive
original jurisdiction of all petitory and possessory suits in admiralty. ..."
6. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1886)
"... for he who cannot obtain the right of possession is not thereby barred or
prevented from proceeding to a definite decision by a petitory action, ..."
7. A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law, in Relation to Mines, and Titles by John Arnold Rockwell (1851)
"OF POSSESSORY AND petitory SUITS* CONCERNING MINES : OF THE MINING ... the * A
petitory suit, in the courts of Spain, is a suit in which the right of ..."
8. Jurisdiction, Practice, and Peculiar Jurisprudence of the Courts of the by Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis (1880)
"petitory and Possessory Suits. — Liability of Owners for Torts: Ancient and
Statutory Limitation. — Locality of Torts the Test of the Jurisdiction. ..."
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