Also at this time, following the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts in 1539, the French language replaced Latin for all administrative purposes in France.

One of the very decorated staircases of the castle where King Francis I signed the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts.

Villers-Cotterêts is famous because of the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts 1539 signed by king Francis I of France (' François Ier ') which made French the official language in the kingdom instead of regional languages like Occitan and also Latin.

In the 16th century the French language imposed itself even more by the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts to replace Latin in judgements and official acts and deeds ( although the local Oïl languages had always been the language respectively spoken in justice courts ).

It is argued that the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts was not intended to make French a national language, merely a chancery language for law and administration.

In 1539 François I, with the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, forbade the use of Occitan in official documents a fact that is worthy of note only as being significant in itself, not as an important factor in the decadence of Provençal letters.

Among the elites, Latin was still the language of education, administration, and bureaucracy ; this changed in 1539, with the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, in which François I made French alone the language for legal and juridical acts.

# redirect Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts

# REDIRECT Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts

The first page of the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, 1539.

Printed version of the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, August 1539, prescribing the use of French in official documents.

( In 1539, with the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, Francis I of France made French alone the language for legal and juridical acts.

The administrative and social structures of the Ancien Régime were the result of years of state-building, legislative acts ( like the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts ), internal conflicts and civil wars, but they remained a confusing patchwork of local privilege and historic differences until the French Revolution brought about a radical suppression of administrative incoherence.

In 1539, Francis I issued the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts that imposed the use of French in administration.

# Redirect Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts

The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts of 1539 made French the administrative language of the kingdom of France for legal documents and laws.

# Redirect Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts

# Redirect Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts

* Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts

* Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts

He was responsible for the legal reform contained in the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts ( 1539 ), the object of which was to shorten procedure.

The administrative and social structures of the Ancien Régime were the result of years of state-building, legislative acts ( like the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts ), internal conflicts and civil wars, but they remained a confusing patchwork of local privilege and historic differences until the French Revolution brought about a radical suppression of administrative incoherence.

The Hudood Ordinance () ( also spelled Hudud ) was a law in Pakistan that was enacted in 1979 as part of then-military ruler Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization and replaced or revised in 2006 by the Women's Protection Bill.

" Nathan Dane, the primary author of the Northwest Ordinance, viewed this provision as a default mechanism in the event that federal or territorial statutes were silent about a particular matter ; he wrote that if " a statute makes an offence, and is silent as to the mode of trial, it shall be by jury, according to the course of the common law.

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One reason for this is that the 1980 Ordinance is partly modelled on old English admiralty law, namely the Administration of Justice Act 1956.

Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the Continental Congress opened what is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin to settlement.

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Independence is in the Town of Burnside, which corresponds with one of the townships created under the Land Ordinance of 1785.

In France, for example, the Ordinance of Marine of Louis XIV was published under the auspices of Colbert in 1691, and was the first complete code of maritime and commercial law ; and " when we consider the originality and extent of the design and the ability with which it is executed, we shall not hesitate to admit that it deserves to be ranked among the noblest works that legislative genius and learning have ever accomplished.

The Financial Secretary is responsible for preparing the Government Budget in accordance with the Chief Executive's agenda in the policy address, ensuring policy is in accordance to the Public Finance Ordinance.

Ohio petitions to gain statehood, and the northern boundary is set by the Ohio constitution as the Ordinance Line of 1787 with one proviso: If the line intersected Lake Erie to the east of the mouth of the Maumee River, then " with the assent of Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extended to a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami Bay.

The possession, cultivation and trafficking of cannabis are illegal in Hong Kong, and is punishable under The Dangerous Drug Ordinance ( Chapter 134 of the Law of Hong Kong ), which contains the following key points:

The capital is defined as Stanley in the Interpretation and General Law Ordinance.

The trade mark law of Hong Kong is based on the Trade Marks Ordinance Cap.

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In order to successfully claim for copyright protection, 3 criteria must be satisfied: ( 1 ) the subject matter must be a ' work '; ( 2 ) the work must fall within 1 of the 9 categories stated in s. 2 ( 1 ) of the Hong Kong Copyright Ordinance ; and ( 3 ) the work must be original if the subject matter is a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work.

Except for typographical arrangement of published editions, the duration of copyright in other works is also 50 years from certain events specified in the Copyright Ordinance.