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Memorialize

To address or petition by a memorial to present a memorial to as to memorialize the legislature

Petitionary

Supplicatory making a petition

Grant

over to make conveyance of to give the possession or title of to convey usually in answer to petition

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Petitioner

One who presents a petition

Arraignment

criminal prosecution whereby the defendant is brought before the court to hear the charges and to enter a plea, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 104.

Banking policy

the Act of 1883 and of the subsequent statutes are left standing'a most inconvenient method of legislation. the petition of bankruptcy should be registered as a 'lis pendens' and the receiving order and adjudication as 'orders' in

Prefer

consideration acceptance judgment etc to offer to present to proffer to address said especially of a request prayer petition claim charge etc

Ballot

10 CP 733, in which, on a case stated by Lush, J., after hearing the Birmingham Municipal Election Petition, the mode of marking various disputed ballot papers was reviewed by the Court. The Act was originally limited

Averment

Averment [fr. verificatio, Lat.], an advancement or affirmation of any matter in a pleading, and when new matter was introduced the pleading con-cluded with a verification except in the anomalous case of

Arrest of inquest

Arrest of inquest, pleading in arrest of taking the inquest upon a former issue, and showing cause why an inquest should not

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