decree

A decree is an authoritative and formal order or decision issued by a person or body with legal or official power, often carrying the force of law.

Observed surface forms (14)

• conciliar decree ×6
• papal decree ×5
• conciliar declaration ×2
• ecclesiastical decree ×2
• order in council ×2
• union decree ×2
• Napoleonic edict ×1
• Treasury Order ×1
• church decree ×1
• constitutional decree ×1

• government decree ×1
• missionary decree ×1
• rabbinic decree ×1
• religious toleration decree ×1

Instances (27)

• Four Year Plan decree of 1936 via concept surface "government decree"
• Edict of Nantes via concept surface "religious toleration decree"
• Ad Gentes via concept surface "missionary decree"
• Presbyterorum Ordinis
• Gravissimum Educationis via concept surface "conciliar declaration"
• Orientalium Ecclesiarum via concept surface "conciliar decree"
• Nostra Aetate via concept surface "conciliar declaration"
• Inter Mirifica via concept surface "conciliar decree"
• Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests via concept surface "conciliar decree"
• Perfectae Caritatis via concept surface "conciliar decree"
• Treasury Order 136-01 via concept surface "Treasury Order"
• Decree 1747 of 1940
• Reichstag Fire Decree via concept surface "constitutional decree"
• Canon 1 via concept surface "church decree"
• Canon 28 via concept surface "ecclesiastical decree"
• Berlin Decree
• Fourteen anathemas against the Three Chapters via concept surface "conciliar decree"
• Saint Lucia Constitution Order 1978 via concept surface "order in council"
• Dictatus Papae via concept surface "papal decree"
• Bull "Ad extirpanda" via concept surface "papal decree"
  surface form: Ad extirpanda
• Bull "Etsi de statu" via concept surface "papal decree"
  surface form: Etsi de statu
• motu proprio Dei Providentis via concept surface "papal decree"
  surface form: Dei Providentis
• Gezerot via concept surface "rabbinic decree"
• Greater Manchester Combined Authority Order 2011 via concept surface "order in council"
• Decree of Union with the Greeks via concept surface "ecclesiastical decree"
• Decree of Union with the Armenians via concept surface "union decree"
• Decree of Union with the Copts and Ethiopians via concept surface "papal decree"