< li > A variety of actions or pursuits which were thought to be injurious to public morality, might be forbidden by an edict, and those who acted contrary to such edicts were branded with the nota and degraded.

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.

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

Similarly, in an edict of the Emperor Diocletian from AD 303, which set maximum prices of goods and services, the price of saddles, halters, and bridles are enumerated, as well as the price of a veterinarian for " cutting the hair and hoof of each animal.

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.

* 1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands.

This edict proclaimed that all the religions were equal before the law, and that the Roman Empire had to return to its original religious eclecticism, according to which the Roman state did not impose any religion on its provinces.

He is perhaps best known on Usenet for his famous ( or infamous ) " Happynet Proclamation " ( 1992 ), circulated to many newsgroups, some absurdly unrelated, which satirised the endless flamewars on the network, with Parry posing as a godlike being issuing an edict full of in-jokes and humor targets that claimed to unify all news into one glorious totality, " happynet ".

Rothari also made the famous edict bearing his name, the Edictum Rothari, which established the laws and the customs of his people in Latin: the edict did not apply to the tributaries of the Lombards, who could retain their own laws.

In 1671, the Pope published an edict by which he declared that a noble might be a merchant without loss of his nobility, provided always that he did not sell by retail ".

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.

More controversially on 30 October 1682 he issued an edict by which all the money-lending activities carried out by the Roman Jews were to cease.

In 779 the Tang dynasty issued an edict which forced Uighurs to wear their ethnic dress, stopped them from marrying Chinese females, and banned them from pretending to be Chinese.

Around AD 130 the jurist Salvius Iulianus drafted a standard form of the praetor's edict, which was used by all praetors from that time onwards.

This edict contained detailed descriptions of all cases, in which the praetor would allow a legal action and in which he would grant a defense.

It met in AD 787 in Nicaea ( site of the First Council of Nicaea ; present-day İznik in Turkey ) to restore the use and veneration of icons ( or, holy images ), which had been suppressed by imperial edict inside the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Leo III ( 717 – 741 ).

" It also includes an " Omissions " section which reads: " Our silence about any other particular government law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, regulatory agency, activity, or machination should not be construed to imply approval.

* December 5 – King Manuel I of Portugal proclaims an edict in which he demands that Jews convert to Christianity or leave the country.

The queen insisted upon another colloquy, which was opened at St. Germain Jan. 28, 1562, eleven days after the proclamation of the famous January edict which granted important privileges to those of the Reformed faith.

The campaign was becoming more successful ; but the publication of the unfortunate edict of pacification which Conde accepted ( Mar.

The best-preserved Latin inscription surviving from the Greek East, the edict survives in many versions, on materials as varied as wood, papyrus, and stone.

A copy of the first edict, sent for safekeeping to Protestant Geneva, survives.

an edict issued in 1704 commented on the recent Han Chinese settlers in Fengtian having failed to comply with earlier orders requiring them to leave, and asked them to either properly register and to join a local defense group ( 保, bao ), or to leave the province for their original places within the next 10 years.

Under the dynastic laws after 1636, all Han Chinese in the banner system were forced to wear a queue and dress in Manchurian qipao instead of traditional Han Chinese clothing ( 剃发易服 ), under penalty of death ( along with the July 1645 edict ( the " haircutting order ") that forced all adult Han Chinese men to shave the front of their heads and comb the remaining hair into a queue, on pain of death ).

Upon hearing this news at Cao Cao's headquarters at Yecheng, Cao Pi hastily declared himself the new Prince of Wei and issuing an edict in the name of his mother, Princess Bian, before receiving an official confirmation from Emperor Xian of Han, of whom he was still technically a subject.

Liu Bei's edict read: " I'm not capable but I need to preserve the Han Dynasty.

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.

Xiao He had an imperial edict sent to Han Xin, announcing news of Gaozu's victory over Chen Xi, asking Han to meet the emperor and offer his congratulations.

Zhuge Liang retreated back to Hanzhong, but in response to the acquisition of two commanderies, the Shu emperor Liu Shan issued an imperial edict and had Zhuge Liang reinstated as Chancellor.

For example, he shows that the edict forbidding rural settlement only applied to new Jewish settlers, and claims that many villages were exempt.

However, like Shakespeare's Shylock, Barabas also shows evidence of humanity ( albeit rarely ), particularly when he protests against the blatant unfairness of the governor's edict that the Turkish tribute will be paid entirely by Malta's Jewish population.

This edict introduced a general five-year census for the whole Empire, replacing prior censuses that had operated at different speeds throughout the Empire.

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.

The congregation of refugees, small enough at first to be accommodated in an apartment of the Count d ' Espense's residence, grew gradually from increased emigration to Brandenburg, caused by the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685.

As a statement on internal democracy, Foot passed the edict that the manifesto would consist of all resolutions arrived at conference.

The edict was loosely enforced, however, and the following March there was further violence including a massacre at York.

Honorius condemns him and his supporters to death with an edict at Ravenna.

He issues an edict reinforcing the prohibition of prayers or sacrifices at non-Christian temples.

* Valerian's persecution of Christians begins: his edict orders bishops and priests to sacrifice according to the pagan rituals, and prohibits Christians, under penalty of death, from meeting at the tombs of their deceased.

Filtering and speed of e-mail delivery were not priorities at that time and in any case the government and educational servers which started the Internet were covered by a federal edict forbidding the transfer of commercial messages.

By the same edict, he ordered fortified bridges to be put up at all rivers to block the Viking incursions.

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.

Maximus ' edict of 387 or 388 which censured Christians at Rome for burning down a Jewish synagogue, was condemned by bishop Ambrose, who said people exclaimed: ‘ the emperor has become a Jew ’

This edict was enacted by parlement two months later, at the end of the Ancien Régime.

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 the opening of the play, Antigone brings Ismene outside the palace gates late at night for a secret meeting: Antigone wants to bury Polyneices ' body, in defiance of Creon's edict.

In spite of a GM unwritten edict against engines larger than 330 ci in intermediate cars, DeLorean ( with support from Jim Wangers from Pontiac's ad agency ), came up with the idea to offer the GTO as a dealer option package that included a 389 ci engine rated at 325 or.

Eventually, on the eve of his clash with Licinius, he accepted Galerius ' edict ; after being defeated by Licinius, shortly before his death at Tarsus, he eventually issued an edict of tolerance on his own, granting Christians the rights of assembling, of building churches, and the restoration of their confiscated properties.

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.

The apostle Paul claimed rank and privilege as a Roman citizen on account of his birth at Tarsus ; the Caledonian tribes in the south of Scotland were invested with the same rights by an edict of Antoninus Pius.

It is a noteworthy curiosity that the opening of the Janus was perhaps the last act connected to the ancient religion in Rome: Procopius writes that in 536 CE, during the Gothic War, while general Belisarius was under siege in Rome, at night somebody opened the Janus Geminus stealthily, which had long stayed closed since 390, year on which Theodosius I's edict banned the ancient cults.

Pope John I, the successor of Hormisdas, became alarmed ; and in 525, at the demand of Theodoric, proceeded to Constantinople to obtain the revocation of the edict against the Arians and get their churches restored to them ( Marcellinus Comes.