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notice of action
and Immigration Services (USCIS) immigration form, Notice of Action, Form I-797 that says that USCIS has received a petition you submitted, taken action, approved a petition or denied a petition. Source: Department of State. March 2007.
principal applicant
principal applicant The person named in the petition. For example, an American citizen may file a petition for his married daughter to immigrate to the United
Co-respondent
Co-respondent, the man charged with adultery. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 177,enacts that on a petition for divorce presented by the husband or in the answer of a husband praying for divorce, the petitioner
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Material facts
Material facts, are concerned, this court has held that they should be fully set out in the election petition and if any fact is not set out, the petitioner cannot be permitted to adduce the evidence relating
Trial
36 Pat 513. Trial, may be understood in a limited sense, as meaning the final hearing of the petition consisting of examination of witnesses, filing documents and addressing before the tribunal from the time that the petition
Winding-up
by s. 265, the commencement of the winding-up being deemed to correspond with the presentation of a bankruptcy petition (for the date of commencement of a winding-up by the Court, see s. 175; of a voluntary winding-up,
proceeding
action, hearing, trial, or application before the court collateral proceeding : a proceeding that concerns an order, motion, petition, or writ deriving from or sought in relation to another proceeding (as a trial) [a collateral proceeding on
De lunatico inquirendo, writ
to whom, by special authority from the sovereign, the custody of idiots and lunatics is entrusted may, upon petition or information, grant a commission in the nature of a writ de lunatico inquirendo (which is analogous to
Suppliant
Suppliant, the actor in, or party preferring, a petition of right. See PETITION DE DROIT.
Relief
has taken all reasonable means to prevent, he can apply or relief at the trial of an election petition, or if no petition is on the record, to the High Court, under Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention
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