"Petition" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

A written address, embodying an application or prayer from the persou or persons preferring it, to the power, body, or person to whom it is presented, for the exercise of hls or their authority in the re-dress of some wrong, or the grant of some favor, privilege, or license

To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to
solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication,
or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition
the court; to petition the governor.

To make a petition or solicitation.

A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty;
especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the
Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority;
also, a single clause in such a prayer.

A formal written request addressed to an official person,
or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law),
a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the
granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a
memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written
document.