At Milcote on November 3, 1597, the aldermen asked him to support their petition for a new charter.

The chancellor of the Exchequer wrote on the petition: `` in myn opinion it is very resonable and conscionable for hir maiestie to graunt in relief of this towne twise afflicted and almost wasted by fire ''.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

Henry L. Bowden was listed on the petition as the mayor's attorney.

Similar to federal post-conviction relief, an appellant can petition the court to correct alleged fundamental errors that were not corrected on direct review.

There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

However, in the case of a creditor's petition, the Statement of Affairs will rarely be filed on the same day the court order is made.

Later that month, on the first anniversary of the occupation of Jaffa by the British, the Muslim-Christian Association sent a lengthy memorandum and petition to the military governor protesting once more any formation of a Jewish state.

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 ".

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

The petition gathered sufficient signatures, but was rejected on an alleged technicality.

Less than a week after the Westminster convention ended, while Allen and the committee worked on their petition, the American Revolutionary War began.

Or, an eligible person can be nominated through a petition ; thus allowing him or her to be listed on a something.

:: 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.

It builds on the success in 2010 of The 1billonhungry project and the subsequent chain of public events that led to the collection of over three million signatures on a global petition to end hunger ( www. EndingHunger. org ).

The petition was originally presented to representatives of world governments at a ceremony in Rome on 30 November 2010.

As with the petition, the more people who get involved, the more powerful the message to governments: “ We are no longer willing to accept the fact that hundreds of millions live in chronic hunger .” Groups and individuals can also decide on their own to organize an event about the project, simply by gathering friends, whistles, t-shirts and banners ( whistles and t-shirts can be ordered, and petition sign sheets downloaded, on the endinghunger. org website ) and thereby alert people about chronic hunger by using the yellow whistle.

Pauline Léon, on 6 March 1792, submitted a petition signed by 319 women to the National Assembly requesting permission to form a garde national in order to defend Paris in case of military invasion.

The pro-government camp claims to have collected 700, 000 signatures on a petition backing Mr. Tsang's reform package.

A petition he has been circulating via Heather Duke, to get the band Big Fun to perform on campus was actually a disguised mass suicide note.

* A petition the Obama administration to: Change the motto of the United States of America to " E Pluribus Unum " On October 13, 2011 this petition had 789 signatures needed by October 30, 2011 to reach goal of 5, 000.

* The online petition website Change. org claimed it was attacked by Chinese hackers and brought down in April 2011.

Change. org claimed that the fact that hackers ' felt the need to bring down the website must be seen as a testament to Change. org ’ s fast-growing success and a vindication of one particular petition: A Call for the Release of Ai Weiwei.

' Ai Weiwei was released on 22nd, June, 2011 from Beijing, which was deemed as a victory by Change. org of its online campaign and petition demanding Ai's release.

In November of 2011, an Ecuadorean activist group known as Fundacion Causana began a petition on Change. org to entreat the Ecuadorean Minister of Health to close down over 200 " ex-gay clinics " known for starving, abusing, and torturing patients " in an effort to make them straight ".

On January 23 2012, the Change. org petition was closed and marked as a success with 113, 761 international signatures, and updated with a statement from Fundacion Causana reading, “ After ten years of outcry, the nation of Ecuador-through the Ministry of Public Health-has entered into a commitment with civic organizations and society in general to deconstruct the belief that homosexuality is an illness and root our the use of torture in these clinics.

Change. org, with Chilean LGBT group Soy Hombre Soy Mujer, co-sponsored a November 2010 petition against the campaign.

The rise of online social networking in the later 2000s, however, resulted in both an increase of Internet petition integration into social networks and an increase of visibility for such petitions ; Facebook, Change. org, Care2, Avaaz. org and other sites serve as examples of the integration of Internet petitions as a form of social media and user-generated content.

" The billlboard reportedly " unleashed a social media-fed campaign, including a petition from the advocacy group Forecast the Facts calling on Heartland ’ s corporate backers to immediately pull their funding ," and prompted Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. ( R-Wis .), to threaten to cancel his speech at the upcoming Heartland Institute Climate Change Conference.

Twenty thousand world citizens at Stuttgart had signed a petition inviting me to visit their town.

Stratford's petition to the queen declared that two great fires had burnt two hundred houses in the town, with household goods, to the value of twelve thousand pounds.

It seems to me that the prayers of the whole free world must rise like some vast petition to Providence that Sam Rayburn's vigor and his life remain undiminished through the coming decades.

If, in the trustee's judgment, `` reasonable market conditions '' did not prevail during any given year, he was to be allowed to petition the court for an extension of time within the ten-year period.

On March 11 the Louisiana legislature voted unanimously to table the petition.

Giffen filed a petition for permission to emancipate four slaves ( all more than fifty years old ) with the St. Martin's Parish Police Jury.

His petition charged mental cruelty.

The petition listed the mayor's occupation as `` attorney '' and his age as 71.

The petition said that the couple has not lived together as man and wife for more than a year.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.

In United States appellate procedure, an appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law.

The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court's decision.

The appellee is required to respond to the petition, oral arguments, and legal briefs of the appellant.

The second is the collateral appeal or post-conviction petition, in which the petitioner-appellant files the appeal in a court of first instance — usually the court that tried the case.

In Anglo-American common law courts, appellate review of lower court decisions may also be obtained by filing a petition for review by prerogative writ in certain cases.

After exhausting the first appeal as of right, defendants usually petition the highest state court to review the decision.

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

There is a movement to petition the postmaster general to issue a U. S. postage stamp for him in 2011, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Fort Sumter.