WITH FORMS AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE LAWS REGULATING IN IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND CERTAIN COLONIES AND BY WALTER CLODE, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. STANFORD LIBRARY LONDON WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, 27, FLEET STREET. 1887. PREFACE. By way of preface I have only to ask those into whose hands this book may fall, to bear in mind that it is the first one dealing with this branch of law, and to take a lenient view of any errors and omissions upon that ground. WALTER CLODE. 3, HARCOURT Buildings, TEMPLE. How petitions in parliament were dealt with Referred either to (1) ordinary, or (2) special tribuna 1. Same course with petitions "of right" Two examples of this procedure Survival of this procedure with regard to petitions of right By transfer of petitions other than those of right, some (1) to the ordinary legal tribunals, (2) others to parliament, (3) Petitions of right not so transferred, but still addressed to the |