God recognizes the free future acts in His essence, and provides a free decree of His will, which does not predetermine our free will, but only accompanies it.

The doctrine of the divine right of kings was introduced as late as the 17th century, proposing that kings rule by divine decree ; Japanese Emperors ruled by divine mandate until the inception of the Japanese constitution after World War II

He issued two other decrees: one confirmed an earlier decree of Pope Gregory X that ordered the shutting of the cardinals in a conclave to elect a new pope ; the second declared the right of any pope to abdicate the papacy, a right that he himself exercised at the end of five months and eight days at Naples on 13 December 1294.

They secured the consecration of Eugene, who was the archpriest of St Sabina on the Aventine, although by a decree of the Roman Council of 769, under Stephen IV, they had no right to a real share in a papal election.

* The Republic of Venice enacts a decree that new and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them, the first modern patent system.

This right, entitlement or " title ", began to be granted by decree in the form of the writ of summons from 1265 and by letters patent from 1388, and the barony started to become personal rather than territorial.

The modern peerage system is a vestige of the custom of English kings in the 12th and 13th centuries ; in the late 14th century, this right ( or " title ") began to be granted by decree, and titles also became inherited with the rest of an estate under the system of primogeniture.

The court routinely grants the right to such a name change in the final divorce decree.

Despite the constitutional provisions, a 1998 government decree limited citizens ' right to express their own opinion.

The decree of his cause of canonization states that " in 1947 and on Monday, 16 June 1950, he obtained approval of Opus Dei as an institution of pontifical right.

Impaired, that is, until lawyers concocted the bill of foreclosure, whereby a mortgagee could request a decree that unless the mortgagor paid the debt by a date certain ( and after the law date set in the mortgage ), the mortgagor would thereafter be barred and foreclosed of all right, title and equity of redemption in and to the mortgaged premises.

The decree stated that the irrigation companies " are entitled to a decree awarding to them, subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth, the right to the use of all the balance of the waters of the Jordan River, for municipal, irrigation, culinary, and domestic purposes, to the extent of the capacity of their several canals, and the right to impound and store all of the waters of said river in Utah Lake.

The Enabling Act, which gave Hitler the right to rule by decree, passed easily on March 23, 1933.

Theoretically, royal pardon can be granted for the general offense or the accessory offenses alone ; if it is granted for the general offense, the accessory ones it implies are also pardoned, with the exception of punishments involving political rights ( i. e., removal of the right to run for a public office as a result of a sentence ), which have to be explicitly mentioned in the pardon decree if they are going to be pardoned.

By the decree of 24 February, the provisional government had solemnly accepted the principle of the " right to work ," and decided to establish " national workshops " for the unemployed ; at the same time a sort of industrial parliament was established at the Luxembourg Palace, under the presidency of < span lang =" fr "> Louis Blanc </ span >, with the object of preparing a scheme for the organization of labour ; and, lastly, by the decree of 8 March, the property qualification for enrolment in the National Guard had been abolished and the workmen were supplied with arms.

* 1553-The Archbishop of St Andrews issues a decree giving the local populace the right to play golf on the links at St. Andrews.

In 1533 a decree of the Scottish clergy, prohibiting the reading of the New Testament by the laity, drew from Alesius a defence of the right of the people, in the form of a letter to King James V of Scotland ( 1513 – 42 ).

In 1965, The Roman Catholic Church Vatican II Council issued the decree Dignitatis Humanae ( Religious Freedom ) that states that all people must have the right to religious freedom.

The work recommenced under the exhortations of the prophets, and when the authorities asked the Jews what right they had to build a temple, they referred to the decree of Cyrus.

On 1 December 1939, the Germans published a decree requiring all Jews aged 6 and older to wear an armband on their right arm bearing a yellow Star of David ( the colour was later changed to blue ).

Eastern Orthodoxy, in particular has very elaborate and strict rules of fasting, and continues to observe the Council of Jerusalem's apostolic decree of Act 15.

The name means " of Eastern Churches " in Latin, and is taken from the first line of the decree, as is customary with Roman Catholic official documents.

On August 20, 1930 the General Executive Committee of RSFSR accepted the decree " On formation of the Birobidzhan national region in the structure of the Far Eastern Territory ".

From a Catholic canonical point of view, provisions of the joint synodal decree are fully consistent with the provisions of canon 671 of the 1991 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, which states: " If necessity requires it or genuine spiritual advantage suggests it and provided that the danger of error or indifferentism is avoided, it is permitted for Catholic Christian faithful, for whom it is physically or morally impossible to approach a Catholic minister, to receive the sacraments of penance, the Eucharist and anointing of the sick from non-Catholic ministers, in whose Churches these sacraments are valid.

However, Valen's successor Theodosius I effectively wiped out Arianism once and for all among the elites of the Eastern Empire through a combination of imperial decree, persecution, and the calling of the Second Ecumenical Council in 381, which condemned Arius anew while reaffirming and expanding the Nicene Creed.

Nevertheless, on the eighth of November four decrees were published, all of them directed against easy targets: against the followers of the heretical reformers, Jan Hus, recently burnt at the stake at the Council of Constance, safe conduct or no, and against the English followers of John Wyclif, who claimed that the highest authority was the Bible ; against the followers of the schismatic Antipope Benedict XIII ; a decree postponing the negotiations with the Greeks and other Eastern Orthodox churches ( which were later worked into acceptable compromises in the long working sessions of the Council of Florence, 1438 to 1445 ); and a decree advising greater vigilance against heresy, the easiest target of all.

This was swiftly followed by his full-scale excommunication and an anathema from the community of the Eastern Orthodox Church by decree of the Ecumenical Holy Synod on 9 April 1997.

) In its decree Orientalium Ecclesiarum the Second Vatican Council declared: " The Catholic Church holds in high esteem the institutions, liturgical rites, ecclesiastical traditions and the established standards of the Christian life of the Eastern Churches, for in them, distinguished as they are for their venerable antiquity, there remains conspicuous the tradition that has been handed down from the Apostles through the Fathers and that forms part of the divinely revealed and undivided heritage of the universal Church.

In 1891, Ireland refused to accept the credentials of Greek-Catholic priest Alexis Toth, citing the decree that married priests of the Eastern Catholic Churches were not permitted to function in the Catholic Church in the United States, despite Toth being a widower.

It was in the form of a letter addressed to John, Bishop of Trani, in Apulia, at the time subject to the Byzantine emperor, and by decree of Leo the Isaurian attached to the Eastern Patriarchate.

Its legal basis was the joint decree # 1428-326сс of the USSR Sovnarkom and VKP ( b ) Central Committee of August 21, 1937, " About Deportation of the Korean Population from the Border Regions of the Far Eastern Krai " (""), signed by Stalin and Molotov.

This was due to not only the Vatican's decree that phrenology was subversive of religion and morality but also that based on phrenology the " Irish Catholics were sui generis a flawed and degenerate breed ".

In a decree dated 18 April 1591 ( Bulla Cum Sicuti ), Gregory XIV ordered reparations to be made by Catholics in the Philippines to the natives, who had been forced into slavery by Europeans, and he commanded under pain of excommunication of the owners that all native slaves in the islands be set free.

Gladstone claimed that this decree had placed British Catholics in a dilemma over their loyalty to the Crown and their loyalty to the Pope.

In March 2009, the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a decree ( Guidelines for Evaluating Reiki as an Alternative Therapy ) halting the practice of Reiki by Catholics used in some Catholic retreat centres and hospitals.

According to a royal decree of 1428, Louis I had also ordered that only Catholics be granted land in the Sebeş district of Timiş county.

By this decree all marriages everywhere in the Latin Church between Catholics and non-Catholics are invalid unless they take place in the presence of an accredited priest and two witnesses.

The Ne Temere papal decree of 1907 required non-Catholics married to a Catholic to agree to educate their children as Catholics, and often the non-Catholic was required to convert before the marriage.

Ne Temere ( literally meaning " not rashly " in Latin ) was a decree ( named for its opening words ) of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Council regulating the canon law of the Church about marriage for practising Roman Catholics.

The notable effect of the decree was the requirement for a non-Catholic spouse to agree to educate and raise his / her children as Roman Catholics.

This decree which requires the partners in a mixed marriage to promise that all the children of their marriage be brought up as Roman Catholics, is the internal rule of one particular Church.

On February 17, 1966, Pope Paul VI's decree Paenitemini excluded the Ember Days as days of fast and abstinence for Roman Catholics.

The teaching of the Second Vatican Council on the College of Bishops contained within the decree Lumen Gentium has sometimes been interpreted as conciliarism, or a least conducive to it, by liberal and conservative Catholics alike ; however, the text of the document as well as an explanatory note ( Nota Praevia ) by Paul VI makes the distinction clear.

This rule was restated with special reference to Catholics of the Ruthenian Church by the 1 March 1929 decree Cum data fuerit, which was renewed for a further ten years in 1939.

This was the final decree and was intended to prevent Catholics from having anything to do with him whatsoever.

In 1789 when the action of the " Catholic Committee " threatened seriously to compromise the English Catholics, Walmesley called a synod of his colleagues, and a decree was issued that the bishops of England " unanimously condemned the new form of oath intended for the Catholics, and declared it unlawful to be taken ".

This decree states that all denominations of Christianity are welcome to register with the government, although there have been no other denominations that has been allowed to register with the government besides the LEC, Seventh Day Adventists, and Catholics.

Many Catholics throughout the world interpreted the decree as calling for parish councils that would coordinate parish committees or commissions.

This attempt by the emperor to device a formula to which both Catholics and Protestants of Germany could subscribe was objected to outright by the Catholic Electors, the prince-bishops and the pope even before the decree was published.

The Catholic Church had also issued a decree, known as Ne Temere, whereby the children of marriages between Catholics and Protestants had to be brought up as Catholics.