单词 | cause petition |
释义 | > as lemmascause petition cause petition n. (see quot.) ΚΠ 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 33/1 A petition is an application in writing, addressed to the lord chancellor, the master of the rolls, or to the Equity side of the Court of Exchequer, in which the petitioner states certain facts as the ground on which he prays for the order and direction of the court... A cause petition is a petition in a matter of which the court has already possession by virtue of there being a suit concerning the matter of the petition; and the petitioner is generally either a party to such suit, or he derives a title to some interest in the subject matter of the suit from a party to it. When there is no suit existing about the matter of the petition, it is called an ex parte petition. cause petition Formerly, in English law, petitions could be made to a court for judicial action in a suit pending before it (also called a cause petition); they are now used only to commence certain proceedings, as divorce and bankruptcy, and in some cases to seek leave to appeal against a decision.extracted from petitionn.< as lemmas |
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