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petit

petit [Anglo-French, minor, small] : petty

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Petit

Small little insignificant mean Same as Petty

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Petitioning

The act of presenting apetition a supplication

Appeal

Appeal [fr. appellatio, Lat.; appeller, Fr.]. the judicial examination of the decision by a higher Court of the decision of an inferior Court. Thus there is an appeal from the High Court to the Court of...

Appeal, Court of (U.K.)

Appeal, Court of (U.K.), this Court, which was constituted under the Judicature Act, 1873, the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, and the Judicature Act,1881, has, by Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 26, vested in it the appellate...

Appeal and memorandum of appeal

Appeal and memorandum of appeal, the word 'appeal' is defined as the judicial examination of the decision by a higher court of the decision of an inferior court. The appeal is the judicial examination; the memorandum...

appeal

appeal [Old French apel, from apeler to call, accuse, appeal, from Latin appellare] : a proceeding in which a case is brought before a higher court for review of a lower court's judgment for the purpose...

Petit treason

Petit treason, treason of a lesser kind, as if a servant killed his master, a wife her husband, a

Petit larceny

Petit larceny, stealing of goods of the value of a shilling or under. The distinction between grand and petit

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