A decree of Louis XIV in 1696, designed to raise money, ordered all persons who bore arms to register them.
A decree of 409/408 bc orders the public inscription of this murder law, which is partly extant.
A decree of Dec. 8, 1939, authorized Christians to take part in ceremonies honouring Confucius and to observe the ancestral rites.
A decree of March 2009 stripped state governments of responsibility for ports, airports and roads.Pablo Pérez, opposition governor of the western state of Zulia, says that his budget has been cut by a third in real terms.
A decree of 1915 voided all land alienations that had taken place illegally since 1856 and provided for extracting land from haciendas to reestablish the collective Indian villages, or ejidos.
A decree of Antiochus IV praises "king Attalus and queen Apollonis … because of their virtue and goodness, which they preserved for their sons, managing their education in this way wisely and well".
A decree of 26 August 1792 by the French National Assembly conferred French citizenship on Joseph Priestley and others who had "served the cause of liberty" by their writings.
In a decree of 1704, reinforced by a bull in 1715, Clement XI banned the rites.
In 1970 the French minister of justice issued a decree of grace, removing legal restrictions on Charrière's return to France.
Five days later he supported a decree of the National Convention indicting the Girondin leaders and Dumouriez's accomplices.
These measures, to which Hilary submitted, were endorsed by a decree of the Western Roman emperor Valentinian III.
