This law grew out of the earlier decree which had said that all "unoccupied" land belonged to the state.

Portuguese influence was strong in India due to an early papal decree that all mission territories would be under Portuguese control.

This Coronal is new, he has done little yet but make the grand processional, and already the people grumble at his early decrees.

This was the earliest such decree in Germany.

His appeal against that decision was denied on June 1980, as the Crown confirmed the earlier decree.

In 1344, Clement VI (1342-52) found it necessary to reiterate the earlier decrees.

This followed an earlier decree in March 1947, stripping the family of their citizenship.

Of propertied classes and speculators when they have long since been abolished by earlier decrees!

This was one of the earliest decrees of this kind in Germany.

An earlier decree had classified them as civil servants and thus subject to the racial laws.