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The petition document is the oldest extant document in which the academy is mentioned by name, as follows ; " Your petitioners beg leave further to represent that the real estate belonging to their Academy consists of a lot of land fronting the public square in the said village of Geneva, on which they have erected a building twenty-five feet by thirty-eight feet, and one and a half stories high, and that they have for upwards of two years past employed a gentleman of abilities, regularly graduated at Princeton College, who, together with an assistant, has the superintendence of upwards of sixty students.
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After the death of the absolutist king Matthias Corvinus in 1490, the Hungarian magnates, who did not want another heavy-handed king, procured the accession of Vladislaus II ( reigned 1490 – 1516 ), king of Bohemia, because of his notorious weakness: he was known as King Dobže, or Dobzse in Hungarian orthography ( meaning “ Good ” or, loosely, “ OK ”) from his habit of accepting without question every petition and document laid before him .< ref name =" britannica1 ">
William Cooper, an Aboriginal Australian, led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League on a march through Melbourne to the German Consulate to deliver a petition which condemned the “ cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany .” German officials refused to take the document.
A Chapter 13 plan is a document filed with or shortly after a debtor's Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition.
In the colloquial sense, a petition is a document addressed to some official and signed by numerous individuals.
This makes tracking committees difficult, since many committees were known by the date they were created or by a petition or other document that had been referred to them.
Lord Dartmouth, the colonial secretary, rejected the petition to the Lords, saying it was an inappropriate document.
The document was entitled: A true declaracon of the disposinge of the four childrtn of Samuell More in answer to Katherine More's petition to the Right Honorable ~ Sir James Lee ( Knight ) and Baronette Lord Chief Justice of England and dated 1622.
A popular referendum can be called only at the request five regional councils or 500, 000 eligible Italian electors who sign an official validated petition and present a legal identity document to the committee ( usually a political party ) collecting the signatures.
Extensive use of the then relatively new medium of email allowed the petition to be rapidly distributed as a Word document widely across the UK.
The document presents a petition to the Crown by a union of 200 Ladinos to form their own town apart from that of Nicoya.
The petition was a 70, 000 character document that dealt with the brutal suppression of the Tibetan people during and after the Chinese invasion of Tibet.
In one famous incident in 435, during the Northern Wei Dynasty, Goguryeo ambassadors made a formal request that the imperial government issue them a document containing the emperors ' names so that they could avoid offending the emperor while submitting their king's petition.
On 17 December 1951, the petition was presented to the United Nations on two separate venues: Paul Robeson, concert singer and activist, together with people who signed the petition, handed the document to a UN official in New York, while William L. Patterson, executive director of the Civil Rights Congress, delivered copies of the drafted petition to a UN delegation in Paris.
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.
One document in his pension file is a petition drawn up and signed by 21 members of the 55th Regiment, Co. F, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, who had served with him and supported his claim for " Invalid Pension.
In 2004, the Supreme Court denied a citizen's petition to reinstate this indicator, stating that the field in the document was meant for statistical collection only, and not as a declarative statement of Judaism.
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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 ''.
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.
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.
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.
The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.
MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.
The Crown may choose to grant the petition, but if there is any doubt whatsoever as to the pedigree of the petitioner, the claim is normally referred to the Committee for Privileges.
While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.
This is because once a bankruptcy petition is filed, it is for the creditors, not the debtor to decide whether a particular asset has value.
A person or debtor can declare himself or herself bankrupt by lodging a debtor's petition with the Official Receiver, which is the Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia ( ITSA ).
To declare bankruptcy or for a creditors petition to be lodged, a minimum debt of $ 5, 000 is required.
In the case of a debtor's petition, the Statement of Affairs is filed with the petition and the three year period commences immediately.
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.
36 units is the minimum full-time load, 48 units is considered a heavy load, and registrations above 54 units require an overload petition.
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The original petition requested that it be named Dromore after one of the town's oldest sections, but Massachusetts chose instead to honor one of its royal governors, Sir William Phips — actually a native of Woolwich.
A petition is the oldest form of Parliamentary proceeding, and the one through which most early statutes were originally passed ; the King would be petitioned to take action by Members of Parliament, and would assent to their request ; laws passed in this way include Magna Carta and the Statute of Westminster.
The Cathedral of St John the Baptist in St John's, Newfoundland, is the oldest Anglican parish in Canada, founded in 1699 in response to a petition drafted by the Anglican townsfolk of St John's and sent to the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Henry Compton.
The Beta of New York narrowly missed being the eighth oldest chapter after a partially unsuccessful petition to start a chapter in 1836 by Robert Bridges Patton, Samuel F. B.
** Betty White is now the oldest celebrity to ever host SNL at age 88½, beating out the 80-year-old Miskel Spillman ( the winner of SNLs " Anyone Can Host " contest back in 1977 ), the second cast member from The Golden Girls to host SNL ( after Bea Arthur, who hosted prior to starring in The Golden Girls in a season five episode in 1979 ), and is the first celebrity to be chosen to host SNL based on an online petition.
The parish of St. John the Baptist in the city of St. John's, Newfoundland ( part of the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador ) is the oldest in Canada, founded in 1699 in response to a petition drafted by the Anglican townsfolk of St. John's and sent to the Bishop of London, Henry Compton.
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In an extant letter, Chapman petitions for the money owed him ; his petition was ineffective.
The extant works of Conrad Grebel consist of 69 letters written by him from September 1517 to July 1525, three poems, a petition to the Zürich council, and portions of a pamphlet written by him against infant baptism, as quoted by Zwingli in his counterarguments.
In the midst of the work he was recalled to Florence by his conventual superior, and a minute of proceedings of the commune of Prato is still extant, in which it is determined to petition the metropolitan of Florence to obtain his return to Prato, a proof that his share in the work was so important that his recall involved the suspension of it.
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