Writ Petition

Famous quotes containing the words writ and/or petition:

“The prison is the state writ small.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Clay answered the petition by declaring that while he looked on the institution of slavery as an evil, it was ‘nothing in comparison with the far greater evil which would inevitably flow from a sudden and indiscriminate emancipation.’”
—State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)