In hearing the said suits regarding Indians, you shall observe the royal decree and edict given at Malinas, and the declarations that were made regarding it.
Some Portugueses sent him by Tristan de Atayde, not daring to trust themselves shut up there with him, withdrew into the Mountains, where they were soon kill'd, pursuant to the Edict of the League.
The Edict was put in Execution throughout all the Islands at the same Time, destroying all the Portugueses that were in them.
Creon, unyielding and unable to conceive of a law higher than that he knew, gave orders that she should be buried alive, as having deliberately set at nought the solemn edict of the city.
The revocation of the Edict of Nantes had implicitly prepared a crowd of measures and rules in all branches of national industry.
Religious quarrels envenomed questions, and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes was to have for its immediate corollary new and more severe royal ordinances.
Thus, an edict of Jayme the First of Aragon established, in the year 1234, that neither the monarch nor any of his subjects were to decorate their clothes with gold and silver, or fasten their cloaks with gold or silver clasps.
You must obey what all obey, the rule Of fixed Necessity: against her edict Rebellion prospers not.
On the same day the Chinese government issued anedict condemning two of the progressive members of the yamen to death.
There can be no doubt that this curious edict was issued, and it was supposed to have been the result of representations by the inhabitants of the damage inflicted by their gun fire.
In France in 1724 an edict was passed declaring sentence of death against those who counterfeited stamps or insert or solder stamps on other plate.
In 1688 the Grande Monarque needed money to carry on his wars, and he issued an edict forbidding the manufacture of such massive silver, and sent all his plate to the Mint.
It would, therefore, be an edict of confiscation to the landed proprietors of the United Kingdom equal to five times all the landed proprietors in both Houses of Parliament.
This he manifested not only in the savage edict against the Waldenses, referred to in a previous chapter, but by an extraordinary act of devotion to the Holy See.
Aragon, in anedict which is worthy of note as the first secular legislation, with the exception of the Assizes of Clarendon, in the modern world against heresy.
It is true that Raymond of Toulouse and his nobles had been induced to issue an edict banishing all heretics, but this remained a dead letter.
It was the most effective method that could be devised to create public opinion against his adversary, and Frederic retorted with another edict of expulsion.
Archbishop of Mainz, varied his persecution of the Waldenses by an edict in which he described the Mendicants as wolves in sheep's clothing, and prohibited them from hearing confessions.
The coronation-edict of 1220 was sent by Honorius to the University of Bologna to be read and taught as a part of practical law.
In Beaucaire, an edict of 1320 prescribes various penalties, including the loss of a hand, for bearing arms, except in the case of travellers, who are restricted simply to swords and knives.
Aragon, in hisedict of 1197, but the example was not speedily followed.
The shout of triumph which followed the conclusion of the imperial edict still rose from the Christian ranks when the advanced guard of the soldiers appointed to ensure the execution of the Emperor's designs appeared in the square.
Two days after the publication of the edict the high priest Macrinus, in the prime of vigour and manhood, suddenly died.
There was now an edict preferred to recall Metellus from banishment; this he vigorously, but in vain, opposed both by word and deed, and was at length obliged to desist.
He put forth anedict declaring the city to be in a state of anarchy, and left it with orders that the senate should follow him, and that no one should stay behind who did not prefer tyranny to their country and liberty.
He issued an edict likewise, making death the punishment of humanity, proscribing any who should dare to receive and cherish a proscribed person, without exception to brother, son, or parents.
In deference to the letter, they remitted the fine, yet they made an edict prohibiting any citizen for the future to bring letters from Demetrius.
The papal edict permitted the monks and priests to hunt under certain circumstances, and especially where rabbits or beasts of prey increased so much as to damage the crops.
An edict of 1453 orders that "the custom shall be registered in writing, so as to be examined by the members of the great council of the Parliament.
An edictof King John, issued after his return from London in 1363, a short time before his death, clearly defined the duties of Parliament.
Amongst the charges in the households of the kings of France one item was that which concerned the poultry-house, and which, according to an edict of St. Louis in 1261, bears the name of poulaillier.
Parliament of Paris was bold enough to assert that a royal edict should not become law until it had been registered in Parliament.
In spite of this precaution, however, an edict of Clovis II.
The royal edictof 1254 was equally unjust with regard to this game.
The edict of 615, to which the ecclesiastical and State nobility were parties, was in its laws and customs completely at variance with former edicts.
What would you think of that prince or the government who should issue an edict forbidding you to dress like a gentleman or gentlewoman, on pain of imprisonment or servitude?
Would you not say that you are free, have a right to dress as you please, and that such an edict would be a breach of your privileges and such a government tyrannical?
The edictis issued in the name of the emperors Theodosius (the younger) and Valentinian (the younger), in the year A.
The answer is, that the emperor's edict could absolve the judge from following his own convictions about the sense of the law, because it gave to the authorized interpretation the force of law.
Edict of Nantes, and forbade the existence in France of the Protestant religion.
Philostratus describes Nero as issuing his edict on leaving the Capital for Greece, iv.
He absconded, and was not recovered till the Emperor, confirming the act of the people of Milan, published an edict against all who should conceal him.
Benevolus, the Secretary of State, from whose office the edict was to proceed, refused to draw it up, and resigned his place; but of course others less scrupulous were easily found to succeed him.
This, however, can hardly have been the case, supposing the edict against philosophers was as severe as his biographer represents.
The French Protestants, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, gave to England and the Netherlands the benefit of their great industry and manufacturing knowledge.
The edict was now sprung;--in an hour the courtiers were made rich, the peasants were made serfs, and Catharine II.
It was well to delay the steamers at the wharves, until this edict could be put on board.
An edict was prepared, ordering the peasants of Little Russia to remain forever on the estates where the day of publication should find them.
His first edict was for the creation of the class of "free laborers.
But, unfortunately, the palace-intrigues, and the correspondence with the philosophers, and the destruction of Polish nationality left her no time to see the edict carried out.
The AEtolians, on the report of the siege of Ambracia, were by this time assembled at Stratus, in obedience to anedict of their praetor, Nicander.
When Theodosius, the Christian Emperor, in 379 made an edict ordering the demolition of idolatrous temples, it filled the Pagans with dismay.
Soon after a second edict was issued, commanding the total destruction of all images and the whitewashing of the walls of churches.
The royal pair were overawed, and their superstitious forebodings were so effectually worked upon that they signed, in 1492, the edict for the expulsion of the Jews which caused so much misery.
In the reign of Diocletian, when the edict of that Emperor against the Christians was published, stimulated by a Divine zeal he tore the paper to pieces, treating it as infamous.
In this capacity he was called on to read an edict of persecution issued by Diocletian, and rather than read it he resigned his office and fled.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century an edict was promulgated directing that every house should contain a representation of Buddha, and, as the result of this, the sculpture trade received a considerable impetus.
They appealed to the Emperor to banish the Roman Catholic priests, but the imperial edict simply was, "Leave the strangers in peace.
The edict for the banishment of the missionaries was published in 1587.
Prior to this edict the Japanese had been enterprising sailors and had extended their voyages to many distant lands.
Be that as it may, the ink was hardly dry on the Imperial edict before Japan laid herself out with earnestness, not to say enthusiasm, to carry into effect the principles enunciated in the edict.
The persecution of the French Protestants, which preceded and followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, is known to most readers.
His Majesty deigned to favor the proposal, and an edict for giving a civil status to Protestants was included in the batch of bills submitted to the Parliament of Paris for registration.
The edict forbade their being reprinted and their being delivered to such subscribers as had not already received their copies.
His father was one of the many Protestants who, in consequence of the persecutions which followed the revocation of the edict of Nantz, sought an asylum in foreign countries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "edict" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
