In 1212, King Přemysl Otakar I ( bearing the title " king " since 1198 ) extracted a Golden Bull of Sicily ( a formal edict ) from the emperor Frederick II., confirming the royal title for Otakar and his descendants and the Duchy of Bohemia was raised to a kingdom.

Radama's successor, Queen Ranavalona I ( 1828 – 61 ), responded to increasing political and cultural encroachment on the part of Britain and France by issuing a royal edict prohibiting the practice of Christianity in Madagascar and pressuring most foreigners to leave the territory.

The royal edict, registered by the Parlement of Paris on March 15, 1667 created the office of lieutenant général de police (" lieutenant general of police "), who was to be the head of the new Paris police force, and defined the task of the police as " ensuring the peace and quiet of the public and of private individuals, purging the city of what may cause disturbances, procuring abundance, and having each and everyone live according to their station and their duties ".

The scheme of the Paris police force was extended to the rest of France by a royal edict of October 1699, resulting in the creation of lieutenants general of police in all large French cities and towns.

He directed the dismissal of Cardinal Odet de Coligny and seven bishops, nullified the royal edict tolerating the extramural services of the Reformers, introduced the Roman catechism, restored papal discipline, and strenuously opposed all compromise with the Huguenot nobility.

* June 2 – A royal edict in France makes heresy punishable by death.

The queen repudiated the treaties that Radama I had signed with Britain and in 1835 after issuing a royal edict prohibiting the practice of Christianity in Madagascar, she expelled British missionaries from the island and began persecuting Christian converts who would not renounce their religion.

The translation of the Greek passage reveals that the inscription is a royal edict recording the benefits conferred on Egypt by the pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes at the time of his coronation.

In Sweden in 1527 King Gustavus Vasa secured an edict of the Diet allowing him to confiscate any monastic lands he deemed necessary to increase royal revenues ; and to force the return of donated properties to the descendants of those who had donated them.

There, by royal edict, the public at large were not allowed to play at more than a franc or ten-penny bank, – and the losses or gains could not bring desolation to a family.

In 1767, the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish dominions by royal edict.

The 1 April 1811 edict gave his full title as Henri, par la grâce de Dieu et la Loi constitutionelle de l ' État Roi d ' Haïti, Souverain des Îles de la Tortue, Gonâve, et autres îles adjacentes, Destructeur de la tyrannie, Régénérateur et bienfaiteur de la nation haïtienne, Créateur de ses institutiones morales, politiques et guerrières, Premier monarque couronné du Nouveau-Monde, Défenseur de la foi, Fondateur de l ' ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Henri.

The royal order or edict usually transmitted from the king to the high officials well to their subordinates.

The question at issue was that of the freedom of the corn trade, then much agitated, and, in particular, the policy of the royal edict of 1764, which permitted the exportation of grain so long as the price had not arrived at a certain height.

In 1705 the two professions were fused by royal edict under the name huissier.

Because duels were forbidden by royal edict and Aramis was a novitiate, he had to disappear and adopt a very low profile, which led him to enlist in the musketeers corps.

After the return of Guadeloupe to France in 1763, the city of Pointe-à-Pitre was officially founded under governor Gabriel de Clieu in 1764 by a royal edict, and the swamps where downtown Pointe-à-Pitre stands today were drained in the following years, thus allowing the urban development of the city.

At San Juan de Ulúa ( in modern Vera Cruz ) he was chanced upon by a strong Spanish force that was bringing, by a royal edict issued on 16 June 1567 by king Philip II of Spain, an investigative commission consisting of Licenciado Gaspar de Jarava, Licenciado Alonso Muñoz, and Doctor Luis Carrillo to find out about the insistent rumours alleging some sort of move towards Mexican independence from the Spanish Crown by the Spanish Viceroy of Mexico Gaston de Peralta, 3rd Marquis of Falces, and his half-brothers Martin Cortés I " El Mestizo ", Martin Cortés y Zúñiga ( also known as Martin Cortés II and Martín Cortés, 2nd Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca ) and Luis Cortés y Hermosillo.

In a royal edict issued on 14 December 2006, the king announced that he would begin handing over power to his eldest son Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck immediately.

The king himself wrote to the pope ( 14 September 1693 ) to announce that a royal order had been issued against the execution of the edict of 23 March 1682.

In 1212, Ottokar I ( 1192 – 93 and 1197 – 1230 ), bearing the title " king " since 1198, extracted the Golden Bull of Sicily ( a formal edict ) from the emperor confirming the royal title for Ottokar and his descendants and the Duchy was raised to a Kingdom.

When Athens became the official capital of Greece in 1834, the publication of the relevant royal edict was made in this temple that was the place of the last public turnout of the Athenians.

The war began when the Catholic League convinced King Henry III to issue an edict outlawing Protestantism and annulling Henry of Navarre's right to the throne ; Henry III was possibly influenced by the royal favorite, Anne, Duke of Joyeuse.

The name Montreuil was recorded for the first time in a royal edict of 722 as Monasteriolum, meaning " little monastery " in Medieval Latin.

A royal decree issued in 1910, two years after the Belgian government assumed authority for the administration of the Congo, prescribed the registration of all adult males by chiefdoms.

On June 20, 1868, Governor General the Viscount Monck issued a royal proclamation asking for Canadians to celebrate the anniversary of the confederation.

The Dictum of Kenilworth, issued 31 October 1266, was a pronouncement designed to reconcile the rebels of the Barons ' War with the royal government of England.

Clark and W. Harrison Moore, who had contributed to the first draft of the constitution put before the 1897 Adelaide Convention and was Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, postulated that the letters patent and the royal instructions issued by Queen Victoria were unnecessary " or even of doubtful legality ".

As such, the Australian monarch approves with commission issued under the royal sign-manual and Public Seal of the State her New South Wales Premier's recommendation for viceroy, who is from then until being sworn-in referred to as the governor-designate.

In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

In 1877, in response to a public petition, Queen Victoria issued the second royal charter, which granted city status to the borough and Cathedral status to the former Abbey Church.

The first recorded use of the word " hockey " is found in the text of a royal proclamation issued by Edward III of England in 1363 banning certain types of sports and games.

The Declaration of Rhense issued in 1338 had the effect that election by the majority of the electors automatically conferred the royal title and rule over the empire, without papal confirmation.

Then, as now, the writ of habeas corpus was issued by a superior court in the name of the Sovereign, and commanded the addressee ( a lower court, sheriff, or private subject ) to produce the prisoner before the royal courts of law.

Shortly thereafter, on 3 March 1951, the Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles () was issued by royal decree, giving fairly large autonomy to the various island territories in the Netherlands Antilles.

* 1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.

In March 1992, King Fahd issued several decrees outlining the basic statutes of government and codifying royal succession for the first time.

This censorship peaked on 4 May 1556, when Mary I issued a royal warrant formally incorporating the Stationers ' Company.

Stephen issued a new royal charter, confirming the promises he had made to the church, promising to reverse Henry's policies on the royal forests and to reform any abuses of the royal legal system.

A royal charter of foundation was issued on 12 May 1364, and a simultaneous document was issued by the City Council granting privileges to the Studium Generale.

As such, the Canadian monarch approves with commission issued under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada her Canadian prime minister's recommendation for viceroy, who is from then until being sworn-in referred to as the governor general-designate.

Those regulations, issued as a royal order, stated that all British subjects had the right (" free liberty ") to rake and gather salt on the Turks, providing that they conformed to the regulations, which expressly rejected Bahamian jurisdiction over the Turks.

In 1519, after years of ignoring his petitions, King Manuel I finally hurried to give Vasco da Gama a feudal title, appointing him the first Count of Vidigueira, a count title created by a royal decree issued in Évora on December 29, after a complicated agreement with Dom Jaime, Duke of Braganza, who ceded him on payment the towns of Vidigueira and Vila dos Frades.

In March he issued a royal decree forbidding the use of the term " Palestine " in any legal documents, and pursued other measures designed to make the fact that there would not be an independent Palestine clear and certain.

From at least 1559 he had his own company of players, and in 1574 he obtained for them the first royal patent that was ever issued to actors so that they could tour the country unmolested by local authorities.

Despite the Consell de Cent's refusal to accept the concession issued by the King to found an estudi general, on 10 January 1401, Martín founded the Estudi General of Medicine in Barcelona under his royal prerogative, granting it the same privileges as those enjoyed by the University of Montpellier.