Edicts

public statement written by Arthur Balfour issued by the British government in 1917 in support of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine then an Ottoman region

thumb|250px|Edict of the Tongzhi Emperor in 1874 An edict is a decree or announcement of a law, often associated with monarchies, but it can be under any official authority. Synonyms include "dictum" and "pronouncement". Edict derives from the Latin edictum.

380 CE edict establishing Christianity as the Roman Empire's state religion

edict issued by Roman Emperor Caracalla (212)

1629 edict of Emperor Ferdinand II to restore the religious and territorial status according to the Peace of Augsburg

1685 proclamation by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg

1839 Ottoman edict

code of Lombard customary law

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Written order from an Ottoman Sultan

edict issued by King Edward I in 1290 expelling all Jews from England

declaration made by a government or ruler on freedom of religion

sword hunt during the Meiji Restoration in Japan

1856 edict of the Ottoman government and part of the Tanzimat reforms

16th-century BC Hittite edict

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part of the biblical narrative about the return from Babylonian captivity

1917 Zionist document

614 edict of Clotaire II

in ancient Roman law, an annual declaration of principles made by the new praetor urbanus – the elected magistrate charged with administering justice within the city of Rome

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1825 Tokugawa Shogunate law

1576 edict by Henry III of France

The Edict of Augustus from El Bierzo is a controversial document dated to 15 BC

1587 Japanese edict

17th-century persecution of Yemenite Jews