Legal Definition and Related Resources of Request

To ask for earnestly, to desire for, to solicit , entreat, petition . In its ordinary sense, the term does not convey any imperatives. However in certain context, it may impose a legal obligation to comply ; in a will sometimes the term may amount to a disposition or may impose a duty. See Carpenter v Well’s administrator , Ky. 272 S. W.2d 659; Colton v Colton, 127 U.S. 300, 8 S.Ct. 1164, 32 L.Ed. 138. Also the term is used in penal statutes as equivalent to demand as when a police officer is said to request a sample of the breath of a suspect . See Dept, of public Safety v Powers, (Ky.) 453 S. W.2d260. The term is also sometimes used as synonymous for at the instance of’.

(Lat. requiro, to ask for). In Contracts. A notice of a desire on the part of the person making it that the other party shall do something in relation to a contract. Generally, when a debt is payable immediately, no request need be made. 10 Mass. 230; 3 Day (Conn.) 327; IJohns. Cas. (N. Y.) 319. In Pleading. The statement in the plaintiff’s declaration that a demand or request has been made by the plaintiff of the defendant to do some act which he was bound to perform, and for which the action is brought. A general request is that stated in the form, although often requested so to do” (licet saepe, requisitus) , generally added in the common breach to the money counts. Its omission will not vitiate the declaration. 2 H. Bl. 131; 1 Wils. 33; 1 Bos. & P. 59; 1 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 100. A special request is one provided for by the contract expressly or impliedly. Such a request must be averred (5 Term R. 409; 1 East, 204; 3 Bulst. 297; 3 Campb. 549; 2 Barn. & C. 685) and proved (1 Saund. 32, note 2) . It must state time and place of making, and by whom it was made, that the court may judge of its sufficiency. 1 Strange, 89; Comyn, Dig. “Pleader” (C 69, 70); 1 Saund. 33, note; 2 Vent. 75. See “Demand.” In wills, see “Precatory Words.”

verb

• adjure
• appeal
• apply for
• ask for
• beckon
• beg for
• beseech
• bid
• cadge
• call for
• canvass
• claim
• clamor for
• command
• cry for
• demand
• desire
• dun
• enjoin
• entreat
• exact
• impetrate
• implorare
• implore
• importune
• invite
• make application
• mendicate
• nag
• obsecrare
• obtest
• order
• petition
• petition for
• plead for
• pray
• put in for
• require
• requisition
• rogare
• seek
• send for
• solicit
• sue for
• summon
• supplicate
• urge
• want

noun

• appeal
• application
• asking
• begging
• behest
• beseechment
• bid
• call
• claim
• demand
• desideratum
• entreaty
• exaction
• expressed desire
• impetration
• imploration
• importunity
• insistence
• invitation
• invocation
• motion
• obsecration
• order
• petition
• plea
• postulatio
• postulation
• prayer
• preces
• proposal
• requirement
• requisition
• rogatio
• solicitation
• suggestion
• supplication
• wish

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Acceptance, Apply, Check, Demand, Desire, Detinue, Instance, Key-man System, Letters Rogatory, , Nuncupative Will, Order, Petition, Prayer, Require.

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Meaning of Request (to) in Spanish

Description/ translation of request (to) into Spanish: pedir, solicitar[1]

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1. Translation of Request (to) published by Antonio Peñaranda

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