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A decree (Latin: decretum) in the usage of the canon law of the Catholic Church has various meanings. Any papal bull, brief, or motu proprio is a decree inasmuch as these documents are legislative acts of the pope. In this sense, the term is quite ancient.
1948: Stalin Prize of the third class (for the development and introduction of new methods of drawing up the short-term and long-term weather forecasts) 16 January 1950: Order of the Red Banner of Labour [5] 23 August 2004: Order of Outstanding Merit – posthumous award by presidential decree of the Republic of Uzbekistan [6]
A short time later came a military decree banning activity by parliament and political parties and calling for government control of the media. ... Some members of Yoon's ruling party showed up ...
[1] [14] The usage of the word drop in this context is likely derived from the phrase "draw up". [3] [verification needed] Although it is still considered stylistically inappropriate by some, [1] who assert that the correct phrase is "the writs are issued", [15] or the "writs are drawn up", [16] the term has been recorded in academic text. [2]
Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said, in what would ...
A decree (Latin: decretum, from decerno, 'I judge') is, in a general sense, an order or law made by a superior authority for the direction of others. In the usage of the canon law of the Catholic Church, it has various meanings. Any papal bull, brief, or motu proprio is a decree inasmuch as these documents are legislative acts of the pope. In ...
Lenin's new regime issued a series of decrees, the first of which was a Decree on Land; drawing heavily upon the Socialist-Revolutionary Party's platform, it declared that the landed estates owned by the aristocracy and the Russian Orthodox Church should be confiscated, taken into national ownership, and then redistributed among the peasants by ...
The Convention came about when the Legislative Assembly decreed the provisional suspension of King Louis XVI and the convocation of a National Convention to draw up a new constitution with no monarchy. The other major innovation was to decree that deputies to that Convention should be elected by all Frenchmen twenty-one years old or more ...