petition : Idioms & Phrases
Petition of right
(Law) , a petition to obtain possession or restitution of property, either real or personal, from the Crown, which suggests such a title as controverts the title of the Crown, grounded on facts disclosed in the petition itself. Mozley & W.
Webster 1913
The Petition of Right
(Eng. Hist.) , the parliamentary declaration of the rights of the people, assented to by Charles I.