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.

* 1792 – Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.

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.

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.

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 ).

On November 1918 the large group of Palestinian Arab dignitaries and representatives of political associations addressed a petition to the British authorities in which they denounced the declaration.

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.

The term " democracy " is sometimes used as shorthand for liberal democracy, which is a variant of representative democracy that may include elements such as political pluralism ; equality before the law ; the right to petition elected officials for redress of grievances ; due process ; civil liberties ; human rights ; and elements of civil society outside the government.

( Respondent is the parallel term used in a proceeding which is commenced by petition.

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

Contained within Economic Sophisms is the famous satirical parable known as the " Candlemakers ' petition " which presents itself as a demand from the candlemakers ' guild to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.

In 1877, in response to a public petition, Queen Victoria issued the second royal charter, which granted city status to the borough and Cathedral status to the former Abbey Church.

Fonda was one of more than 50 celebrities who signed an online petition letter by John Greyson in which Greyson said he would pull his film Covered from the Toronto International Film Festival in protest over the Festival's " inaugural City-to-City Spotlight on Tel Aviv ".

These were of the nature of both a treaty and constitution which contained minority rights clauses that provided for the right of petition and adjudication by the International Court.

This indication of his sympathies encouraged some French bishops to approach him with a petition for the recall of the bull Unigenitus by which Jansenism had been condemned ; the request, however, was peremptorily denied.

In some situations, a complaint is called a petition, in which case the party filing it is called the petitioner and the other party is the respondent.

In 1641 Lovelace led a group of men to seize and destroy a petition for the abolition of Episcopal rule, which had been signed by fifteen thousand people.

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

The anti-evolution petition A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism spawned the National Center for Science Education's anti-petition Project Steve, which is named in Gould's honor.

The right to petition was an echo of the English Bill of Rights 1689 which stated " t is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal ".

The subscription controversy was then agitating the university, and Paley published an anonymous defence of a pamphlet in which the Master of Peterhouse and Bishop of Carlisle Edmund Law had advocated the retrenchment and simplification of the Thirty-nine Articles ; he did not, however, sign the petition ( called the " Feathers Tavern " petition, from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers Tavern ) for a relaxation of the terms of subscription.

* July 22 – News of the World urges its readers to sign a petition for Sarah's Law, new legislation in response to the murder of Sarah Payne, which would give parents the right to know whether a convicted paedophile was living in their area.

Petitio ( from peto ), in the post-classical context in which the phrase arose, means " assuming " or " postulating ," but in the older classical sense means " petition ," " request ," or " beseeching.

The case of two burka wearing girls aged 13 and 15 from Beit Shemesh stopped by petition of their great-uncle at Montreal's Trudeau Airport from joining the Lev Tahor settlement near Montréal lead by Shlomo Elbarnes where they were sent by their parents made headlines in and outside Israel.

More recently, Lett-Simmons helped lead a 2004 petition effort to recall D. C. mayor Anthony A. Williams.

A petition was formed by 21-year-old " Boglie " Emma Richards to ensure that lead character Archie stayed on the show, but it failed when the actor left the show midway through the fifth series.

In the words of a petition to king Charles I " many thousand people are dailie imployed in the lead mynes, to the greatt proffitt of your Majestie ... and to the whole Comonwealth ... in getting greatt quantities of lead for the use of the Kingdome in generall, and in transporting the rest to forraigne Nations ...".

The few anecdotes that have been preserved show him to have been as witty as his poems would lead one to expect: on one occasion, when the government was about to cut off funds that paid for milk for the custom house cats, Green submitted a petition in their name, winning a reprieve.

His first step was to lead a movement to sign the petition requesting the permit for the construction of the church.

In 1990 the CTF led a petition drive in Saskatchewan and Alberta which lead to the implementation of freedom of information legislation ( FOI ).

The problem became so bad by 1753 that Scarrooyady, an Iroquois Chief, had to petition the Governor of Pennsylvania to intervene in trade: " Your Traders now bring scarce anything but Rum and Flour ; they bring little powder and lead, or other valuable goods.

In response to a petition from the publication's publisher, Consumers Union, the National Highway Traffic Administration conducted its own tests and found no issue that could lead to a need for a recall.

The petition and the " Latif " prayer lead to the withdrawal and adjustment of the so-called " Berber Decree " of May 1930.

In 2007 several Lebanese fans reacted disappointedly to the decision to drop Beschir, and set up an online petition calling on the team to reinstate him as lead driver.

Later that month, on the first anniversary of the occupation of Jaffa by the British, the Muslim-Christian Association sent a lengthy memorandum and petition to the military governor protesting once more any formation of a Jewish state.

However, by 1933 the District Association had grown concerned that its interests were at variance with those of both townships, and a petition was filed to allow the formation of a new borough.

A petition was filed proposing the formation of the new township from Hepburn Township in 1858.

The formation was a result of a successful petition and election by the citizens of the northeastern corner of Lycoming County who were under the leadership of H. I. McNett, for whom the township was named.

In 1907, the citizens of western Allen Township met at the Northampton Hotel, and signed a petition declaring the formation of the Borough of North Catasauqua.

Galvez's petition resulted in the formation of a joint land-and-sea expedition.

Since its formation RREEL has presented Cardiff Council with an 8, 000 signed petition and 3, 500 letters of objection.

News of the sale had triggered the formation of local action groups, who organised a petition signed by 50, 000 people in an unsuccessful effort to save the Hall.

On September 30, 1831, the bishop of Quebec Bernard-Claude Panet granted a petition signed by Denis-Benjamin Papineau and over 75 tenants for the formation of a parish.

A British governor rejected a civil service candidates ’ list on the grounds that there was too many Muslims ; Persian was removed from the curriculum of Allahbad University, and in 1900 the British accepted the use of Devanagri script for official purposes in the Northwest Frontier provinces and Oudh ……….. the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 … Congress though open to Muslims was formed by Brahmin Lawyers .. however no event was more important for the change in Muslim elite opinion then the partition of Bengal … the first Muslim response was continue the policies … the younger generation clamored for more direct political action …. Urdu defense League in 1900 .. 1906 a petition for separate electorate .. and Lord Minto acknowledged the Muslim right to representation … in 1909 … the most important expression of the new Muslim militancy were the founding of the Muslim League in 1906 … in 1908 Abu ’ l Kalam Azad began to publish Al-Hilal … to support the caliphate .. Maulana Mohamamd Ali a graduate of Aligarh preached a similar creed in Comrade

A petition was submitted in 1859 with 144 signatures of local residents from Darling Point, Paddington and Watsons Bay for the formation of the Municipality.

With no petition against formation of the Municipality, Woollahra was proclaimed to be named so on 17th April, 1860, and gazetted on 20th April, 1860.

The board rejected the petition on February 8, 2001 because the board said the proposed district failed to meet four of the state's nine criteria for new district formation.

On 6 October 1701 Quellinus was one of a group of respected artists to send a petition to King Frederick IV requesting approval for the formation of an artist society and teaching academy.

The meeting agreed to petition the UN to send another commission of enquiry and the Philippines and Indonesia agreed to drop their objection to the formation of Malaysia if the new commission found popular opinion in the territories in favour.