A formal written document requesting a right or benefit from a person or group in authority, where the subject is within the jurisdiction of the court with out the bringing of an action (as a petition for the writ, of habeas corpus, or for an adjudication in bankruptcy); also, the paper containing such a supplication, solicitation, or humble request, a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority, verb_ write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing, To make a request, commonly in written form, intransitive verb_ To address a petition to, To ask for by petition; request formally, To make a petition or solicitation
An official journal, A newspaper; a sheet of paper containing an account of current events and transactions_ often used as the specific name of a newspaper, Hence An official or authoritative report or announcement in or as if in the Gazette, verb_ To publish in a gazette, UK to announce the status of in an official gazette This pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies, transitive verb_ To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy