Petitions are commonly used in the U. S. to qualify candidates for public office to appear on a ballot ; while anyone can be a write-in candidate, a candidate desiring that his or her name appear on printed ballots and other official election materials must gather a certain number of valid signatures from registered voters.

Petitions, along with additional paperwork, must be filed between about four and five months before the election, subject to additional requirements for candidates for a primary election.

In those circumstances, it is clear beyond doubt that the petitioner, Colin Moynihan, must be the rightful heir and that his Petitions must succeed.

In those circumstances, it is clear beyond doubt that the petitioner, Colin Moynihan, must be the rightful heir and that his Petitions must succeed .< ref >

Denifle noticed in the three hundred volumes of Registers of Petitions addressed to Clement VI and Urban V, between 1342 and 1393, that many came from France during the Hundred Years ' War between that country and England.

Independence First launched an e-petition through the Scottish Parliament website which gained over 1300 signatures but was subsequently rejected by the Public Petitions Committee in November 2006, voting six to three to note the position and close it with no further action.

* Petitions for a declaration of nullity against a Rotal decision ;

Petitions to the House of Lords did not have to seek reversal of lower court judgments ; often, petitions were brought directly to the Lords without prior consideration in the inferior judiciary.

It appears to your Committee that pursuant to the Plan concerted by the British Ministry for subjugating America, the King and Parliament of Great Britain have usurped a Power over the Persons and Properties of the People unlimited and uncontrouled ; and disregarding their humble Petitions for Peace, Liberty and safety, have made divers Legislative Acts, denouncing War Famine and every Species of Calamity against the Continent in General.

* since 2004: Member of the European Parliament ; Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee on Legal Affairs ( 2006-2009 ); member of the Committees on Rural Development, Budgets, Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and Petitions ( 2004-2009 ).

Petitions for remedies may be filed by domestic manufacturers or unions within the domestic industry, however the law requires that the petitioners represent at least 25 % of the domestic production of the goods for which competition is causing material injury.

Petitions to windup companies and various company law remedies are heard by the High Court which has exclusive jurisdiction in this area.

We your Humble Petitioners Living at a great Distance from ye Center of the Towne Some of us nine or ten Miles and Consequently at a very great disadvantage in joining with them all Publick Town affairs, being encouraged Partly by our Living in that Part of ye Town that was Laid out for what was called ye upper Parish and Partly by ye Kind Reception our Request met with which we made to ye Town for a dismission but more particularly by our Confidence in your Honors desire to Promote ye Happiness of every Part of ye State Humbly Pray that Honors would take our Case into your Serious Consideration and grant that we together with all those Live in sd Upper Part may be Erected and Incorporated into a body Politick and Corporate to have Continuance in ye Name of Northfield with all such Powers and Authorities Privileges Immunities and Franchises with other Parishes or Towns in this State in General hold Enjoy with your Petitions as in duty bound Shall forever pray .”

Petitions have been submitted to the town by residents of a new housing development located across the road in an effort to force Collingwood Ethanol to reduce the amount of odour and noise that they are causing during the times when they are in full production.

Petitions have been forwarded to lessen the penalties where laws of the country have wilfully and knowingly been broken.

Petitions are more likely to be filed when children have a history of problems at home or at school.

More recently, since February 2007, he has been chairman of the Primary Industries and Resources Standing Committee and the National Capital and External Territories Standing Committee, as well as being an inaugural member of the Standing Committee on Petitions which was established to receive and process petitions to the Federal Parliament from citizens and groups.

In the Petitions Committee, where he is first vice-chair, Michael Cashman has been working on the so-called Spanish Land Grab crisis .< ref >

Petitions favoring readmission had been presented to the army as early as 1649 by two Baptists of Amsterdam, Johanna Cartwright and her son Ebenezer (" The Petition of the Jews for the Repealing of the Act of Parliament for Their Banishment out of England "); and suggestions looking to that end were made by men of the type of Roger Williams, Hugh Peters, and by Independents generally.

In 1898 President of the United States William McKinley signed the treaty of annexation for Hawaii, but it failed in the Senate after the 38, 000 signatures of the Ku ’ e Petitions were submitted.

Petitions against senators Lena Taylor ( D ), Spencer Coggs ( D ), Mark Miller ( D ), Glenn Grothman ( R ), Julie Lassa ( D ), Fred Risser ( D ), and Mary Lazich ( R ), were unsuccessful.

Lyte's first composition was Tales in Verse illustrative of Several of the Petitions in the Lord's Prayer ( 1826 ), written at Lymington and commended by John Wilson in the Noctes Ambrosianae.

The Head of the Department of Petitions is charged with processing petitions and requests for social aid addressed the King, the Queen or other members of the Royal Family.

Petitions for justice were normally addressed to the King and the Curia, but in 1280, Edward I instructed his justices to examine and deal with petitions themselves as the Court of King's Bench.

Petitions could be sent by anybody, from a scholar-official to a common farmer, although the petitions were more likely read to the emperor if they were persuasive enough to impeach questionable and corrupt local officials from office.

Australian lawyer Jim Unkles has submitted two petitions, one to Queen Elizabeth II, and the other to the House of Representatives Petitions Committee.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Petitions could be submitted to the editor ( as magistrate ) in full view of the community.

Nomination Petitions can be obtained at the Commissioners Office in the Snyder County Courthouse.

Nomination Petitions can be obtained at the Commissioners Office in the Snyder County Courthouse.

Nomination Petitions ( for party members ) and Nomination Papers ( for Independents ) can be obtained at the Commissioners Office in the Snyder County Courthouse.

Petitions from enterprises concerned with the number of acquittals, such as those from the bleaching ground proprietors, forced a Committee to be set up in 1819.

Petitions and signatures were gathered to be sent to Governor Herbert H. Lehman to ensure Marble Hill's status to remain part of Manhattan.

* Petitions may be presented

Petitions may be filed by states, NGOs or individuals.

Petitions asking for some of the positions in the Legislative Council to be filled by popularly elected colonists were presented to London in 1865 and 1869.

However, as it was seen to be desirable that Crown contractors could obtain redress, lest they be inhibited from taking on such work, the petition of right came to be used in such situations, especially after the Petitions of Right Act 1860 simplified the process.

Petitions that appear on the Supreme Court's in forma pauperis docket are substantially less likely to be granted review than others on the docket.

Petitions can also be brought forward by any EU citizen on a matter within the EU's sphere of activities.

Petitions are more likely to be filed in cases involving older children.

Petitions signed by California state voters equal in number to 12 % of the last vote for the office of governor ( with signatures from each of 5 counties equal in number to 1 % of the last vote for governor in the county ) can launch a gubernatorial recall election.

* 1806 Remarks on the two last Petitions in the Lord's Prayer ...