Hottoman to be a rescript, or answer of the sovereign, delivered, by advice of his council, to some college, order, or body of people, upon consulting him on some case of their community. The like answer, given to any particular person, is called simply... Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature - Page 118edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
| GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...palace. PRAGMAT'IC SANC'TION, in the civil law, is a rescript or answer of the sovereign, delivered by advice of his council to some college, order, or body of people, who consult him in relation to the affairs of their community. A similar answer given to an individual... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...his UPRAGMAT'IC SANCTION, in the civil law, is a rescript or answer of the sovereign, delivered by advice of his council to some college, order, or body of people, who consult him in relation to the affairs of their community. A similar answer given to an individual... | |
| Walter Farquhar Hook - Dictionaries. Ecclesiastical - 1854 - 626 pages
...PRAGMATIC SANCTION, THE. (From Tpaxc", business.) A rescript or answer of the sovereign, declared by craments in some case of theircommunity. — Hatman. Referring to the expression historically, the earliest... | |
| Walter Farquhar Hook - Dictionaries. Ecclesiastical - 1854 - 614 pages
...PRAGMATIC; SANCTION, THK. (From TpayjKi, business.) A rescript or answer of the sovereign, declared by advice of his council, to some college, order, or body of people, upon their consulting him in some case of theircommunity. — Hatman. Referring to the expression historically, the earliest... | |
| John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1859 - 1116 pages
...family.— ArbuUmot. In Civil Law, pragmatic sanction, a rescript or answer of the sovereign, delivered by advice of his council, to some college, order, or body of people, upon consulting him on some case of their community ; the like answer given to any particular person is... | |
| Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1888 - 674 pages
...Diet. PRAGMATIC SANCTION.— In the civil law, a rescript or answer of the sovereign, delivered by advice of his council to some college, order, or body of people, who consult him in relation to the affaire of the community. A similar answer given to an individual... | |
| Charles Leonard-Stuart - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 648 pages
...suppressed by Constantine the Great. Pragmatic Sanction, a rescript or answer of the sovereign delivered by advice of his council to some college, order, or body of people, on any case of their community. Generally it is applied to an ordinance fixing the succession to a... | |
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