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The creditor at whose instance an adjudication of bankruptcy is made against a bankrupt. … [Read more...] about PETITIONING CREDITOR

Lat. In old English law. A, demandant; the plaintiff in a real action. Bract, fols. 102, 1066. … [Read more...] about PETENS

That which demands or petitions that which has, the, quality of a prayer or petition; a right to demand. 2. A petitory suit or action is understood to be one in which the mere title to property is to be enforced by means of a demand or petition, as distinguished from a possessory suit. 1 Kent, Com. 371. 3. In the Scotch law, petitory actions are so called, not because something … [Read more...] about PETITORY

An ancient levy or tax of a penny on each house throughout England, paid to the pope. It was called "Peter-pence,' ' because collected on the day of St. Peter, ad vincula; by the Saxons it was called "Rome-feoh," "Rome-scot," and "Rome-pennying," because collected and sent to Rome; and, lastly, it was called "hearth money," because every dwelling-house was liable to it, and … [Read more...] about PETER-PENCE

A droitural action ; that is,, one in which the plaintiff seeks to establish and enforce, by an appropriate legal proceeding, his right of property, or his title, to the subject matter in dispute; as distinguished from a possessory action, where the right to the possession is the point in litigation, and not the mere right of property. The term is chiefly used in admiralty. 1 … [Read more...] about PETITORY ACTION