But-if he's guilty, whatever possessed him to send in a petition of right?"

Ultimately, in many colonies legislation was passed with respect to claims against the government which made it unnecessary to resort to a petition of right.

The petition of right was a monopoly of the Yatar priesthood.

In English law, a petition of right was a remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown.

The employers then presented a petition of right seeking repayment of the sums paid in the past years.

Apart from petitions of right, the Act abolished several ancient writs and procedures:

The Lord Chancellor could direct the hearing of petitions of right in that court even when not started there.

A petition of right was available:

He also advocated, with Wentworth against Eliot, a joint-committee of the two houses on the petition of right.

The agitation caused by the business was of major importance for the formulation of the Petition of Right.

In order to help his client, Carson used an archaic legal device called a petition of right against the Crown to bring the matter before the courts.

"A petition of right, on behalf of Nictoros, Priest of Yatar, was brought to me three ten-days ago.

One of the most famous causes célèbres in English law, the Archer-Shee case, arose out of proceedings on a petition of right.

Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights and the Bill of Rights are documents held in veneration by democrats throughout the world.

Section 1 of the Act allows claims, for which a petition of right would previously have been demanded, to be brought in the courts directly as against any other defendant.

However, civil proceedings can, in theory, still be brought using the two original mechanisms outlined above - by petition of right or by suit against the Attorney-General for a declaration.

Finally, Sir Edward Coke made a speech suggesting that the Commons join with the House of Lords, and pass their four resolutions as a petition of right.

The Petition of Right of 1628 sought to add to Magna Carta in the manner of the Articuli super Cartas or the Six Statutes.

You may imagine my amazement when as I inspected the fields I was greeted in ways known only to the priesthood, and I was given a properly drafted petition of right."

These were rejected by Charles, who also announced that Parliament would be dissolved; in response, the Commons met on 6 May to discuss alternatives, and concluded that a petition of right was the way forward.

Parliament would not grant Charles new taxes (more money) until he had signed the Petition of Rights that established conditions in which Charles had to submit to the law of the Parliament.

He protested against the sermons of Sibthorpe and Mainwaring, and was prominent in the debates on the petition of right, but the informal position of leader was taken by Sir John Eliot.

After Charles got the taxes from Parliament (1629), he dissolved Parliament and broke the tenets of the Petition of Rights (since he believed in the Divine Right of Kings Theory).

However, it was appreciated that contractors might be reluctant to deal on such a basis and claims were entertained under a petition of right that needed to be endorsed by the Home Secretary and Attorney-General.

Petition of right was not available in respect of engagements in the naval, military or civil service, which, were not generally considered as contracts of employment but as appointments enjoyed during the pleasure of the Crown.