THE

LAW AND PRACTICE

OF

PETITION OF RIGHT

UNDER

THE PETITIONS OF RIGHT ACT, 1860.

WITH FORMS AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE LAWS REGULATING
PROCEEDINGS BY PETITIONS OF RIGHT

IN

IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND CERTAIN COLONIES AND

DEPENDENCIES.

BY

WALTER CLODE,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

LONDON

WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

27, FLEET STREET.

1887.

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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.

(a.) History:-

PART I.

CHAPTER II.

SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE USES OF PETITION

OF RIGHT.

Petitions in Parliament

Contents of

Some of them "petitions of right

How petitions in parliament were dealt with

Referred either to (1) ordinary, or (2) special tribuna 1.

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(b.) Uses :-

Reason of this survival

Same course with petitions "of right

Two examples of this procedure

Survival of this procedure with regard to petitions of right

to the present day

Original use of petition of right

To obtain restitution of specific property

By transfer of petitions other than those of right, some (1) to
the ordinary legal tribunals, (2) others to parliament, (3)
and others to "the Council"

Petitions of right not so transferred, but still addressed to the

king.

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