On 31 December 1809, a decree of King Maximilian of Bavaria granted the city a new coat of arms, as a recognition of their ( mainly humanitarian and logistic ) services in the Battle of Abensberg the same year.

Tiridates III issued a decree by which he granted Gregory full rights to begin carrying out the conversion of the entire nation to the Christian faith.

The constitution praised Vincent, and it granted the executive sweeping powers to dissolve the legislature at will, to reorganize the judiciary, to appoint ten of twenty-one senators ( and to recommend the remaining eleven to the lower house ), and to rule by decree when the legislature was not in session.

On 11 June, he confirmed the Minor Observantines in the Holy Land in the privileges and indulgences granted to those who visit the holy places, according to the decree of Popes Alexander VII and Clement IX.

Under a decree supposedly issued by Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, the Pope was granted secular authority over western Europe.

During 1904 London and Bess negotiated the terms of a divorce, and the decree was granted on November 11, 1904.

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.

This stone will provide the key to the hieroglyphic, or pictographic writing, of ancient Egypt and the decree on it reveals the increasing influence of Egyptian natives, remitted debts and taxes, released prisoners, pardoned rebels who have surrendered, and granted increased benefactions to the temples.

There he founded a bank, which in December 1718 became the Banque Royale, national bank of France, while Law himself was granted sweeping powers to control the economy of France, which operated largely by Royal decree.

The 1865 decree was then modified by the 1870 Crémieux decrees, which granted French nationality to Jews living in one of the three Algerian departments.

By decree of the Holy See, the Augustinian Order is granted exempt status, which places it under the direct dependence of the Pope, meaning that bishops have no jurisdiction with regards to the internal affairs of the Order.

Eventually, Nicholas agreed to make George legitimate and granted him the style of " Count Brasov " by decree on 26 March 1915.

A divorce decree was granted on 17 November 1890 and Parnell's two children were placed in O ' Shea's custody ( his first child having died when he was in Kilmainham Gaol ).

" The final divorce decree was granted on May 7, 1943.

They were granted by royal decree on 9 February 1990.

The arms were granted in 1984 by royal decree.

They separated on November 7, 1954 and were granted an interlocutory divorce decree on December 7, 1954 ; the divorce was finalized on December 30, 1955.

The current president, Traian Băsescu, revoked the award granted to Tudor on May 24, 2007, but a lawsuit is ongoing even after Băsescu's decree was declared constitutional.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was granted executive power by the National Assembly to rule by decree for 18 months in early 2007.

By a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Ceremonial of 31 December 1930 the Holy See granted bishops of the Roman Catholic Church the title of Most Reverend Excellency ( Latin, Excellentia Reverendissima ).

| Universal suffrage granted by decree ; first elections in 1956 ; women's suffrage coincided with abolition of literacy requirements.

On 1 June 1958, Charles de Gaulle was appointed head of the government ; on 3 June 1958, a constitutional law empowered the new government to draft a new Constitution of France, and another law granted Charles de Gaulle and his cabinet the power to rule by decree for up to 6 months, except on certain matters related to the basic rights of citizens ( criminal law, etc .).

Rodrigo de Santaello, archdeacon of the cathedral and commonly known as Maese Rodrigo, began the construction of a building for a university in 1472 ; in 1502 the Catholic Monarchs published the royal decree creating the university, and in 1505 Julius II granted the Bull of authorization ; in 1509 the college of Maese Rodrigo was finally installed in its own building, under the name of Santa María de Jesús, but its courses were not opened until 1516.

In 1519, after years of ignoring his petitions, King Manuel I finally hurried to give Vasco da Gama a feudal title, appointing him the first Count of Vidigueira, a count title created by a royal decree issued in Évora on December 29, after a complicated agreement with Dom Jaime, Duke of Braganza, who ceded him on payment the towns of Vidigueira and Vila dos Frades.

The Brazilian national anthem () was composed by Francisco Manuel da Silva in 1831 and had been given at least two sets of unofficial lyrics before a 1922 decree by President Epitácio Pessoa gave the anthem its definitive, official lyrics, by Joaquim Osório Duque-Estrada, after several changes were made to his proposal, written in 1909.

The decree granting a coat of arms to Alonso Pita da Veiga for his deeds at the Battle of Pavia, was archived at the General Archive of Simanca ( Archivo general de Simancas, legajo 388, rotulado de " Mercedes y Privilegios .’) and was issued by Emperor Charles V on 24 July 1529.

In that decree, Charles V does not credit a single individual but, rather, a group of individuals that included Alonso Pita da Veiga: " ..... and in the same battle, you ( Alonso Pita da Veiga ) accomplished so much that you reached the person of said King ( Francis I of France ) and captured him, jointly with the other persons that captured him .” (" .... y en la misma batalla ficistes tanto que allegastes á la misma persona del dicho Rey, y fuistes en prenderle, juntamente con las otras personas que le prendieron ....")

Therefore the fact that in 1969, during the most repressive phase of the military dictatorship, the 1967 constitutional text was amended by a decree ( ato institucional ) of the military junta that held interim power during the last illness of the military President Arthur da Costa e Silva, in order to authorize government compensation for land expropriated for purposes of land reform to be made in government bonds, instead of cash, as had been formerly the only legally admitted practice ( Art. 157, § 1º, as amended by Institucional Act no. 9, 1969 ).

In his public work Memorial da Lagoa e do seu Concelho (" Memory of Lagoa and its Municipality "), Carreiro da Costa wrote: " There is a decree that is known by the studious, and it is a valuable document about the beginning of settlement in our islands.

The old parish of Bretanha that extended along the northern coast of Ponta Delgada, included the localities of Remédios, Ajuda and Pilar until 13 December 1960 ( Regional decree 43 / 392 ), when Remédios da Bretanha ( later just Remédios ), broke away from the other administrative territories ( leaving behind the agglomerations of Ajuda, that included Amoreiras, and Pilar, that included João Bom.

By regal decree, dated 18 December 1768, the lands were referred to as the Aldeia da Rainha (), and many tried to adapt to the new environment.

The decree granting a coat of arms to Alonso Pita da Veiga, was archived at the General Archive of Simanca ( Archivo general de Simancas, legajo 388, rotulado de " Mercedes y Privilegios .’) and was issued by Emperor Charles V on 24 July 1529, four years after the Battle of Pavia.

In regards to the Battle of Pravia, the decree states that Alonso Pita da Veiga recaptured the standard " ... of His Most Serene Infante Don Fernando, who is now King of Hungary, Our most dear and loved son and brother, which bore the insignia of Our Duchy of Burgundy, which the French had taken when the standard-bearer was killed ”.

The decree states that Alonso Pita da Veiga took from Francis I of France the following: " and you took from him his left gauntlet and a brocade decorated with four crosses of silver cloth and a crucifix made of the True Cross, of which events the same King of France gave testimony in a document signed by his own hand.

The decree then awards Alonso Pita da Veiga a coat of arms, described in the decree, that incorporates the different elements of his deeds at the Battle of Pravia:

In the wake of the papal decree naming Our Lady Aparecida Patroness of Brazil, on July 16, 1930, Cardinal Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra, the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro ( then the Capital of Brazil ), in the presence of several civil authorities and a vast popular concourse, dedicated Brazil to the Virgin of Aparecida.

With the advice of our brethren and of the entire Curia, as well as with the will and consent of the prefect, we decree the abolition of that evil custom which has hitherto prevailed among the porticani, namely, of disposing, contrary to the wish of the one deceased, of the property of porticani dying without heirs ; with this understanding, however, that in future the porticani remain faithful to the Roman Church, to us and to our successors.

The impact of the First World War, when many Irish Protestant families lost some or all of their sons at Ypres and the Somme left large numbers of families without heirs and Protestant daughters without Protestant potential husbands, had a devastating impact, an impact augmented separately by Pope Pius X's Ne Temere decree, which demanded that all children of Catholic-Protestant marriages be brought up as Catholic ( previously, the tradition had been that the boys would be brought up in the religion of their father, the girls in the religion of their mothers ).

The decree, which became official law on the 4 March 1939, pronounced King Alexander I ’ s underage sons King Peter II, Prince Tomislav and Prince Andrew, in equal parts, heirs to his entire estate.

The so-called Golden Bull of Sicily (, ) was a decree issued by King Frederick II of Germany in Basel on 26 September 1212 that confirmed the royal title obtained by Ottokar I of Bohemia in 1198, declaring him and his heirs Kings of Bohemia.