petition of right
Americannoun
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One procedure open to them is a petition of right, in which case they would hear their own suit against the Government.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, after a long interval, by the petition of right; which was a parliamentary declaration of the liberties of the people, assented to by king Charles the first in the beginning of his reign.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir
People with exasperated minds are driven to join the Land League, in hope that union will be strength, and that ears deaf to petition of right will grant concessions to agitation.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon
What authority is left to the Great Charter, to the statutes, and to the very petition of right, which in the present reign had been so solemnly enacted by the concurrence of the whole legislature?
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David
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