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In jurisprudence, a de facto law (also known as a de facto regulation) is a law or regulation that is followed but "is not specifically enumerated by a law." [ 4 ] By definition, de facto 'contrasts' de jure which means "as defined by law" or "as a matter of law."
During this period, King Philip III of Spain was the de jure Lord of the Netherlands. Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange: Philip IV of Spain: 1625–1647 In 1625, Prince Frederick Henry of Orange was proclaimed Stadtholder (thereby de facto ruler) of the renegade Netherlands after the natural death of his brother Maurice of Orange.
Between 1805 and 1914, the ruling dynasty of Egypt was subject to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire but acted as de facto independent rulers who maintained the polite fiction of Ottoman suzerainty. However, starting from around 1882, the rulers had only de jure rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state. [5]
Chancellor of Germany and Minister President of Prussia Otto von Bismarck, with German Emperor and King of Prussia William I as a de facto figurehead. Cardinal Richelieu and his successor Cardinal Mazarin, de facto rulers of France during the reign of King Louis XIII and the early years of that of Louis XIV.
(Reuters) - Syria's de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa hosted Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Sunday in another effort to reassure minorities they will be protected after Islamist rebels led ...
Chiang Kai-shek, de facto leader of the Kuomintang Republic of China on the mainland (1928–1949) and in Taiwan (1949–1975), was sometimes referred as lingxiu (Chinese: 領袖; pinyin: lǐngxiù; lit. 'leader') [5] Getúlio Vargas, dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945, was known as the "Supreme Leader of the Revolution".
Though president and various monarchical titles are most commonly used for heads of state, in some nationalistic regimes, the leader adopts, formally or de facto, a unique style simply meaning leader in the national language, e.g., Germany's single national socialist party chief and combined head of state and government, Adolf Hitler, as the ...
The Kingdom of Eswatini is a diarchy in which the King rules in conjunction with his mother, the queen mother in their capacity as traditional rulers. Constitutionally, however, the King is the sole head of state, though it is often argued that the giving of authority wholesale to the royal male in this way is a neo-traditionalistic as opposed ...