Usually means: Requesting recognition of legal rights.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. petitory: Collins English Dictionary
  2. petitory: Wordnik
  3. petitory: Wiktionary
  4. petitory: Dictionary.com
  5. Petitory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. petitory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Petitory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. petitory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. petitory: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Petitory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. petitory: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Petitory: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  petitioning, soliciting, begging, petitionary

Similar:
petitionary, supplicational, placitory, parenetic, pathetical, pathetick, pietistical, apologetical, precisianistic, pathetique, more...

Opposite:
possessory, non-petitory, non-claiming

Phrases:
petitory action, petitory suit, more...

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Similar:
petitionary, supplicational, placitory, parenetic, pathetical, pathetick, pietistical, apologetical, precisianistic, pathetique, more...

Opposite:
possessory, non-petitory, non-claiming

Phrases:
petitory action, petitory suit, more...



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