If the petition is granted the appellant could be released from incarceration, the sentence could be modified, or a new trial could be ordered.

In 1803, the inhabitants signed a petition addressed to the Jamaican governor asking him to grant them a tax exemption from the " Transient Tax on Wreck Goods ".

The nominees for alumni trustee are determined by a poll of the members of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College, selecting from among names put forward by the Alumni Council or by alumni petition.

:: Glenn Crain appeals from the dismissal of his Tax Court petition challenging the constitutional authority of that body and defying the jurisdiction of the Internal Revenue Service to levy taxes on his income.

Contained within Economic Sophisms is the famous satirical parable known as the " Candlemakers ' petition " which presents itself as a demand from the candlemakers ' guild to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.

Since the gag rule prevented him from bringing slavery petitions to the floor, he used a petition from a Georgia citizen over another matter to bring a separate petition to the floor.

Although any move to censure Adams over the slavery petition was ultimately abandoned, the House did address the issue of petitions from enslaved persons.

Fonda was one of more than 50 celebrities who signed an online petition letter by John Greyson in which Greyson said he would pull his film Covered from the Toronto International Film Festival in protest over the Festival's " inaugural City-to-City Spotlight on Tel Aviv ".

In the first week of the movement's existence, Nevada-Semipalatinsk gathered more than 2 million signatures from Kazakhstanis of all ethnic groups on a petition to Mikhail Gorbachev demanding the end of nuclear testing in Kazakhstan.

The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed by President John Adams as Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia but whose commission was not subsequently delivered.

Vying for control to avoid chaos the Crown's Ministers gained an advantage in 1706 when the Commons informally declared, " That this House will receive no petition for any sum of money relating to public Service, but what is recommended from the Crown.

The first such petition was presented in the House of Commons on 4 December 1837 ( from Montrose ).

Again in 2011 a public interest litigation petition caused the Madras High Court Bench to grant permission to villagers of Kodaioor village to conduct a rooster fight during Deepavali coinciding with a local temple festival from the claims that the " villagers ' religious sentiments would be hurt if the cockfight was not allowed ".

He was assisted by a number of independent printers and booksellers, who opposed the monopolistic aspects of the Act, and introduced a petition in February 1693 that the Act prevented them from conducting their business.

In a collection of chancery proceedings, it is heard of a petition brought against Malory by Richard Kyd, parson of Papworth, claiming that Malory ambushed him on a November evening, and took him from Papworth, to Huntingdon, and then to Bedford, to Northampton, all the while being threatened on his life to either forfeit his church unto Malory, or else give £ 100.

Gerald M. Sider states that rather than challenging this ruling, " The Lumbee subsequently removed their petition from active consideration by the BIA in a way that also prevented the Tuscarora petitions from being considered.

The right of assembly was originally distinguished from the right to petition.

State legislatures began to enact tough laws that made it harder for minor political parties to run candidates for office by requiring a high number of petition signatures from citizens and decreasing the length of time that such a petition could legally be circulated.

The subscription controversy was then agitating the university, and Paley published an anonymous defence of a pamphlet in which the Master of Peterhouse and Bishop of Carlisle Edmund Law had advocated the retrenchment and simplification of the Thirty-nine Articles ; he did not, however, sign the petition ( called the " Feathers Tavern " petition, from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers Tavern ) for a relaxation of the terms of subscription.

All three charters were issued in October 1788, though dated back to 1780, the year of the original petition.

Prior to the All Blacks ' tour of South Africa in 1960, 150, 000 New Zealanders signed a petition supporting a policy of " No Maoris, No Tour ".

The All Blacks toured in 1960, despite a campaign based on the slogan of " No Maoris, No Tour ", and a 150, 000 signature petition opposing it.

" All kinds of community groups got involved with the Dee petition.

The present building, dedicated to All Saints, was constructed between 1835-6 as a result of a petition to the Bishop of Winchester and much fund-raising, following the destruction of the old church.

All criminal cases that are within the Court's jurisdiction and all traffic infraction cases are presented to the Court by petition for appeal.

All 88 counties of Ohio were represented in the petition.

Replying to Skinner's petition, the East India Company objected that the case was one of first instance, and that the Lords therefore should not have accepted it.

The Bank was liquidated in 1960 on the orders of Kerala High Court in response to a petition made by the Reserve Bank of India ( RBI ).

In November 2011, The Andhra Pradesh High Court ordered a probe against Chandrababu Naidu. A Division Bench said " we are of the opinion that the petitioner made out a case of misuse and / or abuse of power and also actions of indulgence by respondent No. 8 ( Mr. Naidu ) warranting admission of the writ petition ”. The Bench directed the investigating agencies – Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ), the Enforcement Directorate ( ED ) and the Securities And Exchange Board of India ( SEBI ) to submit reports within three months so that the court could further consider the matter. The petition was filed by Y. S.

During filming in India, the name of the project was not revealed to government officials who would have denied the petition to film in India had it been called " Kama Sutra.

*" Dhananjoy to be hanged " – article in the Indian Express dated August 5, 2004 referring to his mercy petition being rejected by the President of India

In Citizens for Democracy through its President v. State of Assam and Others, 1995 KHC 486: 1995 ( 2 ) KLT SN 74: 1995 ( 3 ) SCC 743: 1995 SCC ( Cri ) 600: AIR 1996 SC 2193, the court entertained a letter from Shri Kuldip Nayar ( a journalist, in his capacity as President of Citizens for Democracy ) to a judge of the court alleging human-rights violations of Terrorist and Disruptive Activities ( Prevention ) Act ( TADA ) detainees ; it was treated as a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India.

AICF has been fighting for the welfare of Christian community for the last fifteen years and currently has petition ( WP Civil # 579 / 2009 ) in the supreme court of India requesting SC status to Dalit Christians.

* 12 March-The South African Indian Congress ( SAIC ) delegation is received by the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, in Delhi, India, submitting a petition drafted in consultation with Mohandas Gandhi.

In 1668, a London merchant named Thomas Skinner presented a petition to Charles II asserting that he could not obtain any redress against the East India Company, which, he asserted, had injured his property.

* Free burghers in the Cape Colony petition the Dutch East India Company to extend the slave trade to private enterprise

He was released on the next day due to a petition from Chennai Press Club, Madras Union of Journalists, Press Trust of India and The Indian Newspaper Society which stated that his arrest was completely unwarranted and was done to please popular film stars.

On the 7th of January 2011, a whistle-blowing site indianleaks. in has leaked a document which states that the mercy petition file is not with President of India.

On the 10th of August 2011 the home ministry of India rejected the mercy petition and sent a letter to the President of India recommending the death penalty.

Workers from China or India with jobs requiring only a Bachelor's degree can expect to wait years after filing the labor certification and immigrant visa petition to become eligible to file the final application for the green card itself.

In the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition there are reports of particular, Wonderworking icons that exude myrrh ( fragrant, healing oil ), or perform miracles upon petition by believers.

In 1936, he signed the petition of a group of Protestant churchmen that sharply criticized Nazi policies and declared the Aryan Paragraph incompatible with the Christian virtue of charity.

On September 22, 1997, officers of the Christian County, Illinois sheriff's department attempted to serve commitment papers that had been obtained by a court order after a petition by some of her relatives.

In early 2007, there was a widespread public discussion about the granting of pardons in Germany after convicted Red Army Faction terrorist Christian Klar, who was serving six consecutive sentences of life imprisonment, filed a petition for pardon.

A vocal group of critics of Christian Science church managerial policy including Lee Johnson, and Stephen Gottschalk, a protégé of historian and author, Robert Peel, came together after the publication of the Knapp book to petition the Church management to withdraw the book from publication and to inform the Church membership of their belief that this book contradicted Eddy's teachings, thereby violating her Church Manual.

In October 2000, a coalition of Christian non-governmental organizations sent a petition to Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, requesting a dialogue between the government and minority religious leaders on the controversy.

: From the earliest ages of the Catholic Church a Christian people, whether in time of triumph or more especially in time of crisis, has addressed prayers of petition and hymns of praise and veneration to the Queen of Heaven and never has that hope wavered which they placed in the Mother of the Divine King, Jesus Christ ; nor has that faith ever failed by which we are taught that Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, reigns with a mother's solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness with the glory of a Queen.

Axelrod, along with fellow Nobel-laurates Marshall W. Nirenberg and Christian Anfinsen, organized a petition by scientists opposed to the new agency, on the grounds that by focusing solely on cancer, public funding would not be available for research into other, more solvable, medical problems.

He showed his prowess in debate early on, citing Christian teachings in a petition that spoke out against slavery to fellow Christians in a predominantly church-attending Massachusetts legislature.

The prayers recorded in early Christian literature can be categorized into six type: petition ( including intercession ), thanksgiving, blessing ( or benediction ), praise, confession and finally a small number of lamentations.

" The publisher got church groups and Christian radio to campaign for state textbook approval, with a petition in Alabama urging that " Intelligent Design " be presented as an alternative to evolution, and their attorney arguing that it did not compel belief in the supernatural and was not a creationist text.

He also participated in national petition drives urging the Committee to investigate the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Black Panthers.

Spurred on by the grant of women's suffrage in New Zealand, Mary Lee, the Social Purity League, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Democratic League travelled all over South Australia, which included the Northern Territory at the time, collecting signatures on a petition.

The Blackstone Memorial of 1891 was a petition written by William Eugene Blackstone, a Christian Restorationist, in favor of the delivery of Palestine to the Jews.

Christians were also deprived of the right to petition the courts, making them potential subjects for judicial torture ; Christians could not respond to actions brought against them in court ; Christian senators, equestrians, decurions, veterans, and soldiers were deprived of their ranks ; and imperial freedmen were re-enslaved.