A later edict issued by Constantius after becoming sole emperor decreed that a person who was proven to have converted from Christianity to Judaism would have their entire property confiscated by the state.

Regarding religion, Constans was tolerant of Judaism but promulgated an edict banning pagan sacrifices in 341.

On one occasion, Cyril sent the grammaticus Hierax to secretly discover the content of an edict that Orestes was to promulgate on the mimes shows, which attracted great crowds.

In the edict, preserved in an inscription from the city of Aphrodisias in Caria ( near Geyre, Turkey ), it was declared that all debts contracted before 1 September 301 must be repaid at the old standards, while all debts contracted after that date would be repaid at the new standards.

It appears that the edict was made in an attempt to preserve the current price of gold and to keep the Empire's coinage on silver, Rome's traditional metal currency.

The Edict on Maximum Prices ( Edictum De Pretiis Rerum Venalium ) was issued two to three months after the coinage edict, somewhere between 20 November and 10 December 301.

In the most basic terms, the edict was ignorant of the law of supply and demand: it ignored the fact that prices might vary from region to region according to product availability, and it ignored the impact of transportation costs in the retail price of goods.

In the judgment of the historian David Potter, the edict was " an act of economic lunacy ".

was the keeper of the treasures, but since he was away on business in Tsukushi province, his younger brother accommodated the imperial edict on his behalf, and sent two younger brothers as carriers of these treasures to show the emperor.

The edict against the reformer, which was finally adopted by the emperor and the diet, was drawn up and proposed by Aleandro.

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.

In AD 295 incest was explicitly forbidden by an imperial edict, which divided the concept of incestus into two categories of unequal gravity: the incestus iuris gentium, which was applied to both Romans and non-Romans in the Empire, and the incestus iuris civilis, which concerned only Roman citizens.

He sees Christ as the new Adam, who systematically undoes what Adam did: thus, where Adam was disobedient concerning God's edict concerning the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Christ was obedient even to death on the wood of a tree.

NeXT's first workstation was officially named the NeXT Computer, although it was widely referred to as " the cube " because of its distinctive case, a 1 ft x 1 ft x 1 ft magnesium cube, an edict of Jobs ' designed by Apple IIc case designer Frogdesign.

Autonomy was granted, not through an Act of the Cortes ( the Legislative branch of Spain ), but through an edict of the monarch.

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.

This he gave to them, gifting to them a papal ring, the Standard of St. Peter, and a papal edict to present to the English clergy saying that William was given the papal blessing for his bid to the throne.

Some time after, Cardinal Altieri declared that he had not intended to comprise the ambassadors among those for whom the edict was intended, and that the pope had never contemplated subjecting them to it.

However, there is no credible evidence that such a edict was ever issued by Gregory IX.

Lactantius has written of the perverse accompaniments to the edict ; of goods withdrawn from the market, of brawls over minute variations in price, of the deaths that came when its provisions were enforced.

The edict for the exclusion of Christians and Jews was not strictly enforced until the middle of the 14 Century and by 1490 not even Muslims were permitted to enter the underground caverns.

The provisions of the edict were known and enforced in Palestine by March or April ( just before Easter ), and was in use by local officials in North Africa by May or June.

This last edict was not enforced at all in the domains of Maximian and Constantius.

The 212 edict of Emperor Caracalla which formally conferred Roman citizenship on all residents of Roman provinces, did not however exempt them from the poll tax.

Before his death, however, Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople had drawn up the Ecthesis in response to the orthodox synodical letter of Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and on learning of the death of Pope Honorius had convinced the Emperor to issue this document as an imperial edict in December 638, thus valid across the entire empire.

Although she was a fair and judicious ruler, no law or edict, however minor, was ever carried out without her personal approval and seal.

The pater familias had the power to approve or reject marriages of his sons and daughters ; however, an edict of the Emperor Caesar Augustus provided that the pater familias could not withhold that permission lightly.

Under Fu Jia and Zhong Hui's advice, however, Sima Zhao returned to Luoyang anyway against edict, and was able to maintain control of the government.

The crown found it hard to register the edict however, a process which required the Parlement of Paris ratifying the edict and adding it to the statutes.

When the attack on the Templars in England began in 1308 Greenfield was favourable to them and so refused to take any part in actions against them within the province of Canterbury ; he was however present at the Great Council of Vienne in 1312, when Pope Clement V issued an edict dissolving the Order of the Templars.

On the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft, however, the edict had no such effect as Charles IV, who was of the House of Luxembourg, regarded the Swiss as potential useful allies against his rivals, the Habsburgs.

A few years later, however ( 1533 ), such a decree was proclaimed, but upon this occasion also Samuel Abravanel and others were able through their influence to avert for several years the execution of the edict.

It is however not the case that any official encouragement of those events has been documented unlike the situation of the Canadian forces where Meyer claims that a " no prisoners " edict was in place as evidenced by documents captured from Canadian officers at the time.

Before Emperor He reached Jiankang, however, in spring 502, while Emperor He had only reached Gushu ( 姑孰, in modern Ma ' anshan, Anhui ), Xiao Yan had him issue an edict giving the throne to Xiao Yan, ending Southern Qi and beginning Liang Dynasty ( with Xiao Yan as its Emperor Wu ).

Gradually, however, he was made uneasy by the obvious trend of the imperial policy towards the annihilation of Protestantism, and by a dread lest the ecclesiastical lands should be taken from him ; and the issue of the edict of restitution in March 1629 put the capstone to his fears.

Some of the Barnard family in England may have been Huguenots who fled from the Atlantic coast region of France circa 1685 ( the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes ) or earlier than that date, however the evidence for this is tenuous, as the name does not appear in lists of proven Huguenot names.

This royal edict seems to have been abandoned, however, after Stephen's death in 1154, and evidence suggests that civil law was soon again a favorite subject at Oxford.

What Yang became most known for, however, was his reform of the taxation system, introduced in an edict by Emperor Dezong in 780.

Lactantius, a Christian apologist of the early 4th century ( deeply hating Decius for the persecution of Christians resulted from his edict on sacrifices ) described the emperor's demise as following:

A royal edict issued on April 22, 2007 lifted the previous ban on political parties, ordering that they be created, in anticipation of National Assembly elections to be held the following year.

The story served to free up Legion continuity from following the " Adult Legion " edict of previous issues.

The Empress Dowager Cixi, a Manchu, issued such an edict following the Boxer Rebellion in order to appease foreigners, but it was rescinded a short time later.

The number of Moriscos which remained following the edict is subject to historical debate, although recent historians agree both that the original morisco population and the number of them who avoided expulsion is higher than was previously thought.

A large number of the caves were constructed at Mogao during this era, including the two large statues of Buddha at the site, the largest one constructed in 695 following an edict a year earlier by Tang Empress Wu Zetian to build giant statues across the country.

He protected Martin Luther from the Pope's enforcement of the edict by faking a highway attack on Luther's way back to Wittenberg, and hid him at Wartburg Castle following the Diet of Worms.

The following day Yongzheng issued an edict summoning Yinti back from Qinghai, bestowing on their mother the title " Holy Mother Empress Dowager " the day Yinti arrived at the funeral.

In 311 AD, Roman Emperor Galerius issued a general edict of toleration of Christianity, in his own name and in those of Licinius and Constantine I ( who converted to Christianity the following year ).

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.

It was not until 1682 following the Versailles edict that only the intention to kill with poison and sacrilege coupled with that intention could be withheld as grounds for capital punishment over witchcraft.

This edict states that, following Saichō ’ s request, the ordinands would be divided between two curricula: the shanagō course, centering on the study of the Mahavairocana Sūtra ( this was the Mikkyō curriculum, shana being the abbreviation for Birushana, the Japanese transliteration of Vairocana ), and the shikangō course, based on the study of the Mo-ho chih-kuan, the seminal work of the T ’ ien-t ’ ai patriarch Chih-i 智顗 ( 538 – 597 ) ( this

Initially the cemetery was located on several hills in the borough of Lychakiv, following the imperial Austro-Hungarian edict ordering that all cemeteries be moved outside of the city limits.

The Leopoldsgruft was built under the nave of the church above, beginning in 1657 by Emperor Leopold I, following the edict of his father Emperor Ferdinand III that the hereditary burial place of the imperial family would be in this church.

The Protestants claimed that as they worshiped outside of the town they were following the rules of the edict, and thus the Duke's attack was illegitimate.

However, since for several decades following this edict publisher's guilds saw fit to send their members repeated reminders not to sell erotica, it seems probable that production and sale continued to flourish.

For example, the Prophet Muhammad is quoted as saying, ' We have returned from the little jihad actual war, and now we are heading toward the big jihad struggle against the evil within each of us, not the external war with our enemies '... I participated in a conference organized by the Spanish government to commemorating the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings ... following a comment by a Muslim participant that we shouldn't mention jihad in connection with the terrorist attacks-because jihad is something that Muslims respect-I got up and responded as follows: ' I'd like to relate to this comment not as an academic, but as a Jew .... We Jews have in our Bible the edict of ' an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

In the following April 1182, he published an edict of expulsion, but according the Jews a delay of three months for the sale of their personal property.

The edict was formally revoked on 16 December 1968, following the Second Vatican Council.

In 1774, following the introduction of Rites of Adoption in several of its lodges, it issued an edict authorising them, the Duchess of Bourbon being elected first Grand Mistress of France.

He was liberated at the edict of Amboise in the following March, and, distrusted alike by Huguenots and Catholics, retired to the château of La Frette.

Evidence suggest that Louis XIV ordered the plantings of Melon de Bourgogne in the Muscadet region following the devastating frost of 1709 that wiped out many vineyards. The wine-growing tradition in the region where Muscadet is produced dates from an edict of the Roman emperor Probus who had the first vineyards planted by soldiers.

Seven copies of the edict were created, one for each of the following institutions: to the Pope, to the Knights Templar, to the Knights Hospitaller, to the Hungarian king itself, to the chapters of Esztergom and Kalocsa and to the palatine.

In the days following the attacks, President Jacques Chirac issued an edict to French secret services ordering them to share information with US counterparts " as if they were your own service ," according to two officials who read it and were cited by Dana Priest.