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petitory


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Petitory  \Pet"i*to*ry\,  a.  [L.  petitorius  fr  petere,  petitum 
  to  beg,  ask:  cf  F.  p['e]titore.] 
  Petitioning;  soliciting;  supplicating.  --Sir  W.  Hamilton. 
 
  {Petitory  suit}  or  {action}  (Admiralty  Law),  a  suit  in  which 
  the  mere  title  to  property  is  litigated  and  sought  to  be 
  enforced,  as  distinguished  from  a  possessory  suit;  also 
  (Scots  Law),  a  suit  wherein  the  plaintiff  claims  something 
  as  due  him  by  the  defendant.  --Burrill.