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.

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

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.

A petition proposing a radical change in the German constitution and expressing his basic social ideas ( signed by Herman Hesse, among others ) was widely circulated.

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.

The introduction, " Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth " remained unaltered and only a thanksgiving for those " departed this life in thy faith and fear " was inserted to introduce the petition that the congregation might be " given grace so to follow their good examples that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom ".

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.

This petition was complied with by Pope Pius IV, January 26, 1564, in the papal bull, Benedictus Deus, which enjoins strict obedience upon all Catholics and forbids, under pain of excommunication, all unauthorized interpretation, reserving this to the Pope alone and threatens the disobedient with " the indignation of Almighty God and of his blessed apostles, Peter and Paul.

) In 2006, a petition was created asking The Open Group to release the source code for CDE and Motif under a free license.

The governor denied the petition as well as an application for reprieve, and Gillette was electrocuted in March of that year.

The preparation of the petition was assigned to a committee which included Allen.

He turned to drinking heavily and was forced to petition for bankruptcy.

A grass-roots online campaign was launched and a petition established by supporters of the Council.

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

However, Jacques Pierre Brissot drafted a petition, insisting that in the eyes of the nation Louis XVI was deposed since his flight.

Just as work began at the Champ de Mars, the " Committee of Three Hundred " ( one member for each metre of the tower's height ) was formed, led by Charles Garnier and including some of the most important figures of the French arts establishment, including Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet: a petition was sent to Charles Alphand, the Minister of Works, and was published by Le Temps.

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.

In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

A previous law ( the Habeas Corpus Act 1640 ) had been passed forty years earlier to overturn a ruling that the command of the King was a sufficient answer to a petition of habeas corpus.

A habeas corpus petition could be made by the prisoner himself or by a third party on his behalf and, as a result of the Habeas Corpus Acts, could be made regardless of whether the court was in session, by presenting the petition to a judge.

According to Plutarch, as Caesar arrived at the Senate, Tillius Cimber presented him with a petition to recall his exiled brother.

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

In a petition presented to Parliament in 1439, the name is used to describe an itinerant felon.

The following year he presented the House of Commons with Dering ’ s pro-Royalist petition which was supposed to have been burned.

He was freed in October, after a petition requesting his release, signed by over 2, 000 leading London citizens, was presented to the House of Commons.

The Levellers ' largest petition, entitled " To The Right Honourable The Commons Of England ", was presented to Parliament on September 11, 1648 after amassing signatories including about a third of all Londoners.

A petition demanding the franchise is presented to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean.

In 1793, Grey presented to the House of Commons a petition from the Friends of the People, outlining abuses of the system and demanding change.

Cloud, after Napoleon had kept them waiting while he received the Turkish ambassador, the hapless commissioners presented their " petition " to Louis to accept the crown of " Holland ", which he graciously did, while Napoleon looked on avuncularly.

These were generally presented by John Quincy Adams, who as a member of Congress identified himself particularly with the struggle against any Congressional abridgment of the right of petition.

If an anti-slavery petition was presented, the Senate would vote not on whether to accept the petition but on whether to consider the question of receiving the petition.

In 1709 he presented a petition to King John V of Portugal, seeking royal favour for his invention of an airship, in which he expressed the greatest confidence.

Finally the members of the Bordeaux group, joined with others from Nantes reached an agreement with Langlois, and on 8 November 1839, ‘ La Compagnie de Bordeaux et de nantes pour la Colonisation de l ’ Île du Sud de la Nouvelle Zélande et ses Dépendances ’ presented its petition to the Government.

* The petition may be presented by interrupting another Senator's speech.

The first petition for the separation of the Port Phillip District ( or ' Australia Felix ') from New South Wales was drafted in 1840 by Henry Fyshe Gisborne and presented by him to Governor Gipps.

Gordon, petition in hand, and wearing in his hat the blue cockade of the Protestant Association, entered the Commons and presented the petition.

On January 21, 1840, a petition to create Lake County from seven townships in northern Geauga County and Willoughby Township from Cuyahoga County were presented to the Ohio House of Representatives.

In 1835 settlers presented a petition to the Legislature requesting a new county.

Meetings were held around the country and in June, 1839 a large petition was presented to the House of Commons.