单词 | Petition of Right |
释义 | Petition of Rightnoun 1British historical A parliamentary declaration of rights and liberties of the people assented to by Charles I in 1628.Sir Edward Coke, introducing the 1628 Petition of Right to curtail Charles's tyrannical ambitions, was adamant that ‘Magna Carta is such a fellow, that he will have no ‘sovereign’’....
2 English Law, chiefly historical A common-law remedy against the Crown for the recovery of property. |
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