In Imperial times, the system favoring patrilineal inheritance was changed by the Praetorian edict

* A second Imperial edict prohibits Christianity in the Roman Empire.

This edict paved the way for Justinian to marry Theodora, a former mime actress, and eventually resulted in a major change to the old class distinctions at the Imperial court.

During his reign, an Imperial edict was passed granting that cases against clergy should be dealt with by the Pope.

This shameless and scandalous boy died in Egypt when the court was there ; and forthwith his Imperial Majesty issued out an order or edict strictly requiring and commanding his loving subjects to acknowledge his departed page a deity and to pay him his quota of divine reverences and honours as such: a resolution and act which did more effectually publish and testify to the world how entirely the Emperor's unnatural passion survived the foul object of it ; and how much his master was devoted to his memory, than it recorded his own crime and condemnation, immortalised his infamy and shame, and bequeathed to mankind a lasting and notorious specimen of the true origin and extraction of all idolatry.

An Imperial edict formally deprived him of the Palatinate in 1623.

In 1924, the Imperial Japanese Navy declared in an edict on fleet organization that " for the time being " the Combined Fleet would be a permanent organization consisting of the IJN 1st Fleet and IJN 2nd Fleet.

The edict appointed four members of the Imperial line ( Zaiyuan, the Prince Yi ; Duanhua, the Prince Zheng ; Duke Jingshou ; and Sushun ) and four Ministers ( Muyin, Kuangyuan, Du Han, and Jiao Youying ) as the eight members of a new regency council to aid the young Emperor.

Imperial edict for abdication

He sent the frigates Andromache and Imogene to Whampoa in plain breach of Imperial Viceroy Loo's edict, with fatalities resulting on both sides in the skirmish of cannonfire as they breached the defences at the Bocca Tigris.

His efforts in this matter had received great encouragement when Albert of Saxony issued an edict dealing with the maltreatment of soldiers in the Saxon contingent, thus cutting the ground from under the feet of the Imperial Government, which had persistently attempted to deny or to explain away the cases put forward by Bebel.

The Tennō usually gave a Nairan no Senji ( 内覧の宣旨 ), or an Imperial edict of inspection, to the regent, also known as Sessho or Kampaku.

* November 10, 1867 ( Keiō 3, 15th day of the 10th month ): An Imperial edict was issued sanctioning the restoration of Imperial government.

This edict was added by Gaspar Fagel, then Pensionary of Haarlem, Gillis Valckenier and Free Imperial Knight Andries de Graeff, two prominent Amsterdam regents, which abolished the stadtholderate in Holland " for ever ".

Bayezid II took Gül Baba at his word and returned to the garden weeks later with the edict which established the Ottoman Imperial School, on the grounds next to the rose garden, with Gül Baba as its headmaster.

Despite a 1995 apology regarding World War II by Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, tensions still remain, mostly because many Chinese feel there is a lack of true remorse for wartime crimes committed by Imperial Japanese forces.

By depriving the Bavaria of the March of Verona, Otto II considerably reduced the influence of the Bavarian Dukes in northern Italy and in general Imperial policy regarding Italy.

On December 28, the Assembly's press organ, the Reichsgesetzblatt published the Reichsgesetz betreffend die Grundrechte des deutschen Volkes (" Imperial law regarding the basic rights of the German people ") of 27 December 1848, declaring the basic rights as immediately applicable.

During the run-off period, Chambliss received a subpoena regarding the investigation of a lawsuit against Imperial Sugar that claims that Imperial " wrongfully " failed to remove hazards that caused the disaster of a Savannah-based sugar refinery that exploded on February 7, 2008.

According to Lockhart, the German Kaiser was expanding the war machine of Imperial Germany in 1909, and British intelligence had scant knowledge regarding the types of weapons being forged inside Germany's war plants.

Among the orders Hodgson issued at 14: 20 regarding the Imperial Mounted Division take over from the Anzac Mounted Division the movements of the 6th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade and the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade to fill the gap was not completed until after 18: 30.

Due to strict regulations regarding divorce in Imperial Russia, the two remained legally married until Tchaikovsky's death.

Wolseley would write on 30 September 1879 when, later in the war, the Prince Imperial of France was killed by the Zulu: " I think this is very unfair, and is merely a repetition of what was done regarding the Isandlwana disaster where the blame was thrown upon Durnford, the real object in both instances being apparently to screen Chelmsford.

In 1917 the Imperial War Conference passed a resolution regarding a future special Imperial Conference to readjust the relations of the component parts of the Empire.

The duke had sent him to France around 13 July 1553 to confer with King Henry II regarding French support in the event of an Imperial intervention in England.

A number of heresies have sprung up regarding the authenticity of Ghal Maraz, but the official Imperial position is that the weapon wielded by the Emperors is the hammer of Sigmar.

Central concepts concerning the German race, and regarding economic space, demonstrate continuity from the German Imperial time up through Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

Following the discovery of the remains of Emperor Nicholas II and most of his immediate family in 1991, Maria Vladimirovna wrote to President Boris Yeltsin, regarding the burial of the remains, saying of her Romanov cousins, whom she does not recognise as members of the Imperial family ( including the grandchildren of Nicholas II's sister Grand Duchess Xenia ), that they " do not have the slightest right to speak their mind and wishes on this question.

After many a squabble regarding attribution, Leon Benois sold the painting to the Imperial Hermitage Museum in 1914.

It also settled Swedish, Danish and Holy Roman Imperial claims regarding the Livonian War.

Recent research by the Imperial College London has focused on finding new cell wall proteins which trigger an immune response and are suitable for use in a vaccine to provide long-term protection against M. tuberculosis.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

Initially the main task of the new Imperial Navy was coastal protection, with France and Russia seen as Germany's most likely future enemies.

At the same time, Innocent encouraged the cities in Tuscany to form a league, called the League of San Genesio or the against Imperial interests in Italy, and they placed themselves under Innocent ’ s protection.

In 1408, Awang came back to Brunei under the protection of Imperial eunuchs and officials.

In the last millennium of the Empire, the monotonously numerous revolts made Emperor after Emperor conscious of this, and Imperial policy became little more than the protection of Trantor's delicate jugular vein ..." ( Encyclopedia Galactica )

A scheme proposed at the Imperial Conference of 1887 would have seen colonies taxed for the protection of the Royal Navy.

* In 1945 when the Japanese colonel in charge of the Hue garrison told Bảo Đại that he had ( in line with the orders of the Allied commander ) taken measures ensuring the security of the Imperial Palace and those within it against a possible Việt Minh coup, Bảo Đại dismissed the protection declaring " I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Imperial edicts enacted in the 5th century against paganism gave legal protection to pagans against personal maltreatment ,.

Greek interpretations of Roma as a dignified deity had transformed her from a symbol of military dominance to one of Imperial protection and gravitas.

I cannot agree to exclude them from the protection of the Imperial Parliament.

Over successive generations, a devotional cult arose around the figure of Prince Shōtoku for the protection of Japan, the Imperial Family, and for Buddhism.

While another Georgian kingdom of Colchis was administered as a Roman province, Iberia freely accepted the Roman Imperial protection.

During the First Battle of Gaza, the division ( as the Imperial Mounted Division ) provided protection from counter-attack on the eastern flank while the main infantry assault was underway.

: Let it be lively that it may afford entertainment by its gambols ; let it be timid that it may not involve itself in danger ; let it be domestic in its habits that it may live in amity with the other beasts, fishes or birds that find protection in the Imperial Palace.

The slouch hat in gray felt was worn by the Schutztruppe ( protection force ), the colonial armed force of Imperial Germany, as an alternative to the pith helmet, especially in South West Africa.

Writing about her father Alexius's seizing of Imperial throne in 1081, Anna Komnene notes that he was advised not to attack the Varangians who still guarded the Emperor Nikephoros for the Varangians " regard loyalty to the emperors and the protection of their persons as a family tradition, a kind of sacred trust.

After 9 November the government ordered the newly created People's Navy Division () from Kiel to Berlin for its protection and stationed it in the Royal Stables () across from the Imperial City Residence.

The Mandylion remained under Imperial protection until the Crusaders sacked the city in 1204 and carried off many of its treasures to Western Europe, though the " Image of Edessa " is not mentioned in this context in any contemporary document.

In return, His Imperial Majesty the Sultan promises to England to introduce necessary Reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two Powers, into the government, and for the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Porte in these territories.

Many of these are endangered and need special protection: Imperial Eagle, Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker.

Faced with repeated attacks by the ǀKhowesin, a subtribe of the Khoikhoi under Hendrik Witbooi, he signed a protection treaty with Imperial Germany's colonial governor Göring on 21 October 1885 but did not cede the land of the Herero.

The armed strength of Jai Singh had always made him, the most formidable ruler in Northern India and all the other Rajas looked up to him for protection and the promotion of their interests at the Imperial court. The fast-spreading Maratha dominion and their raids into the north had caused alarm among the Rajput chiefs — Jai Singh called a conference of Rajput rulers at Hurda ( 1734 ) to deal with this peril but nothing came of this meeting.

Due to the poor relations between the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy, the Army found it necessary to procure and operate their own aircraft carriers for the purposes of providing escort and protection for Army transport shipping convoys.