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    The Petition Crown was a pattern coin produced in 1663 by Thomas Simon, a celebrated English medallist and coin-designer. The coin was submitted directly...
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  • a petition of right was a remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown. Before the Crown Proceedings Act 1947, the British Crown could...
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    international trade. English silver crowns were minted in all reigns from that of Elizabeth I. The Charles II Petition Crown, engraved by Thomas Simon, is exceptionally...
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  • Smith on 'The Crown'". Variety. Archived from the original on 25 March 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2018. Clarke, Stewart (19 March 2018). "Petition Calls on Matt...
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  • decision of a federal or state court files a "petition for writ of certiorari" in the Supreme Court. A "petition" is printed in booklet format and 40 copies...
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    (1927) "The Secret of Headlam Height" "The Mystery of the Vanished Petition Crown" "The Holloway Flat Tragedy" "The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left...
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  • is protected. There was an e-petition submitted to the House of Commons in 2017, which asserts that the Canadian Crown Copyright protocol needs to be...
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    online petition was circulated to rename the holiday "Victoria and First Peoples Day", to provide Canadians with an opportunity to honour both the Crown and...
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  • "Written evidence submitted by the Crown Estate (GRD0028)". committees.parliament.uk. "Petition seeks control of Wales' Crown Estate land". BBC News. 23 January...
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  • London 1927) The Secret of Headlam Height The Mystery of the Vanished Petition Crown The Holloway Flat Tragedy The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left...
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    and by the Crown. A petition of right was usually tried in the Chancery or King's Bench divisions but where the subject-matter of the petition arose out...
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    be desirable that Crown contractors could obtain redress, as they would otherwise be inhibited from taking on such work, so a petition of right came to...
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    Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran (Persian: رضا پهلوی; born 31 October 1960) is the oldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and his...
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  • The sixth and final season of The Crown, which follows the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, was released by Netflix in two volumes. The first volume...
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    Economic Sophisms is the satirical parable known as the candlemakers' petition in which candlemakers and tallow producers lobby the Chamber of Deputies...
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    The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774, calling for the repeal of the Intolerable Acts...
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    The Humble Petition and Advice was the second and last codified constitution of England after the Instrument of Government. On 23 February 1657, during...
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  • released. Any prisoner, or another person acting on their behalf, may petition the court, or a judge, for a writ of habeas corpus. One reason for the...
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    entitled by law to petition for the compulsory liquidation of a company vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but generally, a petition may be lodged with...
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  • Under the Titles Deprivation Act, the successors to the peerages may petition the Crown for a reinstatement of the titles; so far, none of them has chosen...
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    Crown that it "links us all together with the majestic past that takes us back to the Tudors, the Plantagenets, Magna Carta, habeas corpus, petition of...
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    "opposition") Petitions of 1897 were a protest against the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. Also referred to as the "monster petition". It was organized...
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    The Crown & Anchor Hotel, affectionately known as The Cranker, is a pub in Grenfell Street, Adelaide, South Australia, known for its longstanding live...
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  • ecclesiastic, one each for the Crown and for Lithuania. They rarely left the royal court, and their duties consisted in hearing petitions and complaints, which...
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    California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited (1972) that the right to petition under the 1st Amendment is not confined to "a redress of grievances" and...
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  • Sovereign immunity, or crown immunity, is a legal doctrine whereby a sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal...
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  • serve the Crown and who have no set limit to the time they occupy their given office—for example, governors-general and minister of the Crown—are said...
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    a unilaterally annexed military occupation, and from 1925 to 1960 as a Crown colony. Following the London and Zürich Agreements of 19 February 1959,...
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    son of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) and Queen Sirikit, he was made crown prince by his father in 1972, at the age of 20. After his father's death...
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  • Mirror of the Polish Crown (Polish: Zwierciadło Korony Polskiej; full title Mirror of the Polish Crown expressing the profound insults and great anxieties...
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