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petitory, a.|ˈpɛtɪtərɪ|
[ad. late L. petītōri-us, f. petītor: see prec. and -ory.]
1. Characterized by asking, soliciting, or begging; petitionary, supplicatory. Now rare.
1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 62, I suppose it needlesse extraordinarilye to procure any noblemans petitory or commendatorye letters in any sutch private respectes. 1651Jer. Taylor Holy Dying iii. §2 (1727) 63 The proper voices of sickness are expressly vocal and petitory in the ears of God. 1720Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 518 The opinion of friends at London, that no petitory clause for protection and favour should be in. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. v. 299 As an equivalent to some petitory lines..there were verses.
2. Law. Characterized by laying claim to something; in petitory action, etc., an action claiming title or right of ownership, as distinct from mere possession, in anything;
b. spec. in Sc. Law: see quot. 1773.
1602W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 48 In our Law it is held, that there is no diuersitie, where a man selleth land depending a writ petitorie of the same land, or doe giue it depending the writ. 1773Erskine Inst. Law Scot. iv. i. §47. 655 Petitory actions are so called,..because some demand is made upon the defender, in consequence either of a right of property or credit in the pursuer. Thus, actions for restitution of moveables, actions of poinding, of forthcoming, and indeed all personal actions upon contracts, or quasi contracts, which the Romans called condictiones, are petitory. 1847in Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 339 The action should contain declaratory conclusions as well as petitory conclusions, adapted to bring out the Sheriff's views. 1880Muirhead Gaius iv. §92 The petitory formula is that in which the pursuer asserts that the thing in dispute is his. 1901Scotsman 9 Mar. 11/1 A petitory action by the..Patents Company..for payment of {pstlg}1500.
3. That involves a petitio principii. rare.
1832Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 63 The fact of the external reality is not only petitory but improbable. 1836–7― Metaph. (1877) II. xxvi. 142 Any hypothesis is probable in proportion as..it involves nothing petitory, occult, supernatural. |
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