Institutions that count as authoritative in a legal system create, modify, or extinguish a legal right or obligation, primarily through the production of a legal text such as a statute, decree, regulation, or judicial decision that sets it out or logically entails it.
Legislation concerning what may or may not be done on Sunday is as old as the time of the Roman emperor Constantine I, who decreed regulations against Sunday labour in 321.
A ministerial decree, the Regulations on Medical Specialist Care, further specifies entitlements by excluding specific forms of transplantation and plastic surgery.
Decrees and regulations issued by the Nationalist Ministry of Education were strictly enforced, with the aid of a centrally administered system of inspection and accreditation.
In response to the determination of organized labor, the left, political parties and students to resist the Free Officers, the commanders used a combination of coercive measures — outright force and military tribunals — to subdue the opposition, followed by a variety of rules, decrees and regulations to prevent further challenges to the Free Officers' authority.
Mariano Moreno, the secretary of war, drafted the decrees and regulations to deal with royalists.
As deputy secretary of the Jewish Council of Elders, which administered the Germans' rules in the ghetto, Tory was able to record the German decrees and regulations, council deliberations and conversations with Nazi officials in his diary.
Sustainable forest management will not eventuate by decree or regulation - it results from people seeing the long term benefits of implementing such practices.
This 1982 Water Law was further complemented then by laws, decrees and regulations in all domains, such as water ownership, usage, licensing for drilling, quality and management.
Decree repealing the Regulation on the landfill of waste.
Decree approving the Regulation on the Programme on the promotion of local agrofood and artisanal products.
