He was at some time made a master of petitions ( requests ), magister libellorum, by Severus.

In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters.

The law which governs home rule charter petitions states that they must be referred to the chairman of the board of canvassers for verification of the signatures within 10 days and Mr. Martinelli happens to hold that post.

His widow started the circulation of petitions after Barnard was reprimanded for violating the probation.

In 2005, as a pilot of the potential of internet petitions, a version of e-Petitioner was produced for the Bundestag.

Puritan-inspired petitions for the removal of the prayer book and episcopacy ' root and branch ' resulted in local disquiet in many places and eventually the production of locally organized counter petitions.

Historically, the remedy for such violations have been petitions for common law writs, such as quo warranto.

* Some deists believe that God is not an entity that can be contacted by human beings through petitions for relief ; rather, God can only be experienced through the nature of the universe.

The gentiles retained control of the city in the three centuries since that date, despite Jewish petitions for joint governorship.

* 1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U. S. Congress for abolition of slavery.

On 22 May 2007, hearings were held in the UK Parliament concerning citizen-initiated petitions for special regulation of franchising by the government of the UK due to losses incurred by citizens who had invested in franchises.

The due process for such petitions is not simply civil or criminal, because they incorporate the presumption of non-authority.

In 1836 Southern Congressmen voted in a rule, called the “ gag rule ,” that called for the immediate tabling of any petitions about slavery.

Reflecting its philosophical position, Reform Judaism, unlike Conservative Judaism, has altered the traditional prayers to refer to " redemption " rather than a " redeemer " and removed petitions for restoration of the House of David.

The culture of Utah, petitions by Utahns, and campaigning by students of Brigham Young University were also mentioned as reasons for recognizing Jell-O.

He returned to Rajkot to make a modest living drafting petitions for litigants but was forced to close it when he ran afoul of a British officer.

Marbury's argument is that in the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress granted the Supreme Court original jurisdiction over petitions for writs of mandamus.

Japanese opposition to the Pacific nuclear weapons tests was widespread, and " an estimated 35 million signatures were collected on petitions calling for bans on nuclear weapons ".

Pretty soon, sessions in Parliament would turn into bargaining tables, the king granting petitions in exchange for money.

There are also cases that do not technically involve two sides, such as petitions for specific statutory relief that require judicial approval ; in those cases there are no respondents, just a petitioner.

James Chalmers organized petitions " for a low and uniform rate of postage ".

It was possible to obtain a legislative divorce in Canada by application to the Canadian Senate, which reviewed and investigated petitions for divorce, which would then be voted upon by the Senate and subsequently made into law.

In 1898 school teachers started to sign mass petitions for further reform.

At the age of thirteen, Novinha, a cold and distant girl, successfully petitions to be made the official biologist of the colony ( roughly the equivalent of a master's degree ); from then on, she contributes to the work of father-and-son xenologers ( alien anthropology ) Pipo and Libo, and for a short time there is family and camaraderie.

Abhorrers, the name given in 1679 to the persons who expressed their abhorrence at the action of those who had signed petitions urging King Charles II of England to assemble Parliament.

When the FDA failed to respond to these two petitions as required by law, Public Citizen, in January 2008, filed suit to compel the FDA to respond to their 2006 petition.

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.

A month before this he noted that anyone could send petitions to the throne ; commoners often did, although the only times their petitions were read aloud to the emperor was when they called for the impeachment of local officials that were not up to par with their official duties.

Automatic ballot access means that no petitions need be filed to gain access to a ballot line for statewide and special elections, and parties may designate candidates through their own conventions.

Various petitions are currently taking place in favour of renaming, their impact and importance remain to be seen.

A public outrage was sounded with petitions and publicity stunts coming from all over Britain to return the characters make to their old selves.

And as women have never consented to, been represented in, or recognized by this government, it is evident that in justice no allegiance can be claimed from them ... Our numerous and yearly petitions for this most desirable object having been disregarded, we now ask your august body, to abolish all laws which hold married women more accountable for their acts than infants, idiots, and lunatics.

As Ottoman plunder of Serbian lands intensified, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I formally granted Serbs who wished to leave the right to their autonomous crownland following several petitions.

) And what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at Milan, the comedy of the people of Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions be annexed to France before Monsieur Buonaparte, and Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of the nations?

He also received the support of the House of Lords, which passed supportive motions, and many messages of support from the country at large, in the form of petitions approving of his appointment which influenced some Members to switch their support to Pitt.

This time the General Assembly granted both towns their petitions.

After giving the signal, Pilate's soldiers randomly attacked, beat, and killed scores of Jews to silence their petitions.

Incorporation petitions were filed on Friday, March 4, 1960, while Inkster officials delivered their petitions for incorporation on Monday, March 7, 1960.

Twenty-seven delegates from nine colonies were the members of the Congress and their responsibility was to draft a set of formal petitions stating why Parliament had no right to tax them.

Their petitions, whether for less rigorous treatment or for opportunity of stating their case, were disregarded.

In one he set forth with searching and truthful minuteness the hindrances to peace, and urged the signing of petitions to the king at Oxford, and to the parliament, to continue their care in advancing an accommodation.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a United Nations body of 18 experts that meets three times a year for four-week sessions ( spring session at UN headquarters in New York, summer and fall sessions at the UN Office in Geneva ) to consider the five-yearly reports submitted by 162 UN member states on their compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ICCPR, and to examine individual petitions concerning 112 States parties to the Optional Protocol.