petition

A solemn supplication or request, especially to a superior authority; an entreaty.

A formal written document requesting a right or benefit from a person or group in authority.

A formal written application seeking a court’s intervention and action on a matter.

A pleading initiating a legal case in some civil courts.

Something requested or entreated.

To address a petition to.

To ask for by petition; request formally.

To make a request, especially formally.

To present a petition or make a request to; supplicate; entreat; specifically, to address a written or printed petition or supplication to, as to a sovereign, legislative body, or person in authority, for some favor or right.