Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating. Sir W. Hamilton.Petitory suit or action (Admiralty Law), a suit in which the meretitle to property is litigated and sought to be enforced, asdistinguished from a possessory suit; also (Scots Law), a suitwherein the plaintiff claims something as due him by the defendant.Burrill.

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