petitory
/ˈpɛtɪt(ə)ri/adjective
1 Law. Of a claim: made or established by means of a petition to a court; ( Scottish Law ) characterized by laying claim to something, especially to a title or right of ownership.
- petitory action noun Scottish Law an action raised by a petition in which a judge is requested to enforce the petitioner's entitlement to certain property rights or credit from the defender..
2 Generally. Characterized by asking, soliciting, or entreating; petitionary, supplicatory.
Origin
Late Middle English. From classical Latin petītōrius of or concerning a claim to ownership (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also relating to a request, either from petītor + -ius, suffix forming adjectives, or from petīt-, past participial stem of petere to seek + -ōrius.
- nonconsecutive
- nonconsecutively
- non-consensual
- non-consent
- non-consenter
- non-consenting
- non-consequence
- non-conservative
- non-consumption
- non-contact
- non-contact time
- non-contagion
- non-contagionist
- non-contagious
- non-contemporaneity
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- non-contingent
- noncontradiction
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- non-controversial
- non-conviction
- non-cooperate