Hence, although the government of Egypt had been Greek-speaking ever since the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Memphis decree, like the two preceding decrees in the series, included texts in Egyptian to display its relevance to the general populace by way of the literate Egyptian priesthood.
In England the interlocutory period is six weeks, whereas in the United States, in those states requiring that a decree of divorce be preceded by an interlocutory decree, the period of delay varies from three months to one year.
"The memory of all things that took place on one side or the other from March 1585 [forward] …" the edict decreed, "and in all of the preceding troubles, will remain extinguished, and treated as something that did not take place".
When Alfred B. Nobel created the prizes that bear his name, he decreed that they be given for work done in the preceding year.
About 1140 the monk John Gratian completed his Concordia discordantium canonum ("Harmony of Contradictory Laws"), later called the Decretum Gratiani ("Gratian's Decree"); it became not only the definitive canonical collection of the entire preceding tradition but also a systematic application of the scholastic method to all legal material.
The selectors respected Border's decree that David Boon, who had been used as an opener in Australia's preceding eight Tests, would bat three and, as a result, the selectors decided to allocate the very last spot in the party to an uncapped, 23-year-old opening batsman from Wagga Wagga named Michael Slater.
Just like the preceding Postulate Sejm, the Estates had very limited competences: they met to hear the Emperor decrees, distribute tax assessments, grant Galician titles of nobility to individuals who already held similar titles elsewhere in the Austrian Empire, prepare petitions and appeals to be heard by the Emperor.
The devaluation is expected to be preceded or accompanied, for instance, by a decree that shifts rents and debts currently denominated in dollars, like mortgages and car loans, into pesos.
Evidence shows that the first decree in which Ptolemy's name precedes Cleopatra's was in October of 50 bce.
They are to be preceded by municipal elections on May 9, and according to earlier decrees women will be allowed to take part for the first time.
