England refused belief in it, which was reasonable enough, but in reality had those decrees been the only cause of the orders in council, the alleged revocation would have afforded ample excuse for England's concession.
The last Congress had, before adjournment, sanctioned the President's course in reviving the non-intercourse with England on the strength of the supposed revocation of the Berlin and Milan decrees by Napoleon.
The United States, by a lucky stroke of legislation, compelled Napoleon to promise revocation of those decrees on a certain day, and then turned that promise against England.
Cornelius De Witt, the brother of John, a man distinguished both in the naval and civil service of his country, was with difficulty induced to sign the revocation of the edict.
The spirit of fanaticism was still lingering in France; it was the spirit which had burst out on the Eve of St. Bartholomew, and had dictated the fatal Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The revocation is in the hands of the Infante; the Salic law is once more the law of the land, and Christina's children are in their turn disinherited.
But if, by God's gracious mercy, the king's senses return, not a moment must be lost in obtaining from his hand a revocation of the act.
Jurieu did much to help those who suffered by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).
Baird, The Huguenots and theRevocation of the Edict of Nantes (1895).
It is difficult otherwise to explain his recorded approbation of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
From the withholding of court favour it proceeded to subsidies for conversions, and thence to a graduated series of invasions of Protestant rights, so that the formal Revocation was only the violent consummation of a process.
In order to understand the War of the Cevennes it is necessary to recall the persecutions which preceded and followed the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
By the revocation of the Edict of Nantes the charter of Protestant liberties was destroyed, and those who had given five out of ten marshals to France, including the great Turenne, were denied the right of civil existence.
The terrified bishop immediately gave up his forces to Tilly, and signed the revocation of the acts of the Confederation.
Those who had escaped destruction endeavored to obtain from Hadrian's successor the revocation of the cruel edicts.
He saw through Agrippa's scheme, plainly told the emperor of the dangers that would surely menace Rome if Jerusalem could safely set her at defiance, and succeeded in wringing from Claudius the revocation of his permission.
Philo visited Jerusalem during Agrippa's reign, and was able to take part in the people's joy at the revocation of Caligula's edicts.
As to making the revocation effective, a revocation operates on the agent from the time he has notice of it.
For example, at common law, the marriage of a woman worked an absolute revocation of her will.
The acts which will amount to a revocation by the principal are various.
A troublesome question in regard to the revocation of an offer for a unilateral contract is this: Suppose A offers B $5 for a book and B starts to get it but when he reaches the door, then A refuses to take the book.
This would not amount to a revocation of the will.
His insanity, by operation of law, was a revocation of the offer.
To effect a revocation he must actually notify the other party of his change of mind, before the latter has accepted.
It is not only necessary to be sure that the agent's authority originally existed, but it is necessary to be sure that his power has not been revoked, either by the death of the principal or by express revocation during his life.
But the king went on to say-- "Allow me, at the same time, to tell you that I believe this revocation to be fatal to the interests of the Monarchy and of France!
He told his master that Henry's real purpose was to make him force out of the Pope a revocation of the sentence on the divorce.
The Pope must conclude the principal matter, or at least insist on the revocation of what had been done since the suit commenced, and then, perhaps, force would not be required at all.
To abstain, the King replied, from encouraging the Princess and her mother in rebellion, and to require the revocation of the sentence which had been given on the divorce.
The revocation of earlier land grants was one measure productive of income, since the taxes from them now went to the crown rather than to the lords.
They suffered still further through Isabella's revocation of the land grants they had received at times of civil war and internal weakness in former reigns, especially in that of Henry IV.
Revocation of all donations made posterior to Guidantonio.
Similar revocation of immunities and privileges granted to the nobility and communes.
Indeed he urged upon the colonists so to conduct themselves as by their behaviour to bring about a revocation of the hated ordinances.
He was, however, to proclaim at once the revocation of the obnoxious ordinances, and he might banish from Peru such ecclesiastics and others as might not be reached by the temporal authority.
The tidings of the revocation of the edict of Nantes reached England about a week before the day to which the Parliament stood adjourned.
The persecution of the Huguenots, and the revocation of the edict of Nantes, had everywhere moved the grief and indignation of Protestants.
In a few of the new charters, indeed, a right of revocation had been reserved to the crown: but the rest James could get into his hands only by voluntary surrender on the part of corporations, or by judgment of the King's Bench.
The effect of the revocation order on the work in progress was described by the president of the road in a letter to the Secretary of War: "In July and August I made a fair beginning and by October we had about 600 hands.
The revocation of the Edict of Nantes, for which you had medals struck, cost more tears, more blood and money, and killed more prosperity in France than three Saint-Bartholomews.
The revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a measure that proved unfortunate, simply in consequence of the irritation Louis XIV.
