The phrase "an edict from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a formal order or proclamation issued by an authority.
Example: "The citizens were taken aback by an edict from the king that changed the laws of the land."
Alternatives: "a decree from" or "a proclamation from".
I'd love to help, Ajay, but it's an edict from the techies.
He has also looked uncomfortable running the bases, under an edict from Girardi not to run full speed.
On his face was the serious, almost devout, expression of someone receiving an edict from the emperor.
He vents his fury at witnessing the damage caused to the Parthenon by Lord Elgin, who had just received an edict from the Ottoman sultan.
The cordial relations have even survived an edict from Mr Osborne that spending on Christmas trees in Whitehall must be slashed.
Under an edict from Kim Il Sung in 1972, up to three generations must be punished in order to wipe out the "seed" of class enemies.
As despised as Caracalla was, he did leave behind one of the most famous legal measure of antiquity: the Constitutio Antoniniana, an edict dating from AD 212 that granted Roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire, something that until then had been reserved only for Italians and a few select provincials.
Houston never had an official edict from its City Council or mayor, but the police followed a general order against asking about the citizenship of people who hadn't been arrested (they did run immigration checks after arrests).
Some of the belief that the church frowned on autopsies may have come from a misinterpretation of a papal edict from 1299, in which the Pope forbade the boiling of the bones of dead Crusaders.
Travelers around the world woke up on Tuesday to an alarming new development: a new edict from the Transportation Security Administration, the American agency that administers security at airports, clamping down on the electronic devices many jet-setters take for granted.
"That was an actual edict from the head of standards at Disney," he said.
