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.

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.

In the United States, a plebiscite is typically known as an initiative when originating in a petition of ordinary citizens, and as a referendum only if it consists of a proposal referred to voters by the legislature.

In the United States the term referendum is often reserved for a direct vote initiated by a legislature while a vote originating in a petition of citizens is referred to as an " initiative ", " ballot measure " or " proposition.

The committee from both houses, to whom it was referred, after a careful examination of the whole subject, reported that it was neither lawful nor expedient to remove the college, and the Legislature, taking the same view, rejected the petition.

Due to the duplicitous actions of some of Waynesboro ’ s town leaders, namely Guy Branamen, the petition given to the state referred to the new town as merely Waynesboro.

On May 11, 1896, the petition was presented to the Walsh County Commissioners and they referred it to the States Attorney.

In 1765 Fox was forced to resign the Paymaster Generalship, and four years later a petition of the Livery of the City of London delivered by the Lord Mayor of London William Beckford against the Ministers referred to him as " the public defaulter of unaccounted millions ".

While being the anthem of the Kingdom of Serbia, it occasionally was referred to as ' Serbian National Prayer ' and the original lyrics contained a petition for the Serbian king.

In Oregon, once an initiative amendment to its constitution has been placed on the ballot by initiative petition, or once a legislative amendment has been referred to the people by a simple majority vote in the state legislature, a simple majority of favorable votes is enough to ratify it.

“ The said Abbess and Convent had presented their humble petition setting forth that their aforesaid monastery was so small and confined in its dimensions that the numerous persons therein ... were not only incommodiously but dangerously situated ... that in consequence thereof the said abbess and convent had chosen out a spot in the neighbourhood of their said priory within the said lordship of Isleworth, more meet healthful and salubrious for them to inhabit .” The danger of the situation referred to may have been due to proximity to the river, or possibly even spiritual danger to the inmates due to a too close intermingling of the sexes.

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.

The petition was in protest to the King for “ Oppressions in Religion, Church Government and Discipline .” For his actions in the committee he was referred to as “ a Lord dear to the House of Commons ”.

The petition was referred to a committee of the House, who called witnesses.

A co-heir may petition the sovereign for a termination of the abeyance in his or her favour ; the sovereign can choose to grant the petition, but if there is any doubt as to the petitioner's pedigree, the claim is usually referred to the Committee for Privileges.

Thereafter, a successor of a person thus deprived of a peerage would be allowed to petition the Crown for revival of the deprived title ; the petition would be referred to a committee of the Privy Council, which would recommend whether the petitioner be reinstated or not.

When opposed, such instruments are referred to the Hybrid Instruments Committee to report to the House on whether a select committee should be appointed to consider the petition or petitions against the instrument.

In California a vote on a measure referred to voters by the legislature is a mandatory referendum ; a vote to veto a law that has already been adopted by the legislature is an optional referendum or " people's veto "; the process of proposing laws by petition is the initiative.

In addition, new acts can be referred to the Constitutional Council by a petition just prior to being signed into law by the President of the Republic.

This petition, was referred by Grant to the Judge Advocate General for review.

He referred the petition to the New Zealand Government on the grounds that the Imperial government no longer had responsibility for such matters, but the New Zealand government dismissed it.

As a result of the petition, the name was quickly changed to the " Walkers Stadium "; however, some fans are still unhappy with the name, and it is still sometimes referred to ( usually derogatively ) as the " crisp bowl ", in reference to Walkers best known products.

The Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda will call the Superior of the community of Sancta Maria in Posterula and will tell him that it is Our desire that the image of Most Holy Mary, referred to in this petition, be again placed between Saint John and St. Mary Major ; the Redemptorists shall replace it with another adequate picture.