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 Pet·i·to·ry a.  Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.
 Petitory suit or Petitory action Admiralty Law, a suit in which the mere title to property is litigated and sought to be enforced, as distinguished from a possessory suit; also Scots Law, a suit wherein the plaintiff claims something as due him by the defendant.
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