in law, a supplication or petition preferred to a prince, or to a court of justice, begging relief in some confessional cases where the common law grants no immediate redress.

Court of Requests, an ancient court of equity, instituted about the nineteenth year of Henry VII. See Court.

In the fortieth and forty-first years of queen Elizabeth, it was adjudged upon solemn argument, in the court of common pleas, that the court of request was then no court of equity.