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PRAGMATIC See also:SANCTION (See also:Lat. pragmatica sanctio, from the Gr. apayµa, business) , originally a See also:term of the later See also:Roman See also:law. It is found in the Theodosian and Justinian codes, together with such variants as a pragmaticism, pragmatica jussio, command; annotatio, an imperial rescript; constitutio, a regulation;
' See also:German See also:Schultz or See also:Schultze (Schultheiss), meaning the See also:head-See also:man of a township, latinized into See also:praetor or See also:praetorius. Many other members of the See also:family of Praetorius were eminent as musicians.and pragmaticism rescriplum. It was a decision of the See also:state dealing with some See also:interest greater than a question in dispute between private persons, and was given for some community (universitas hominum) and for a public cause. In more See also:recent times it was adopted by those countries which followed the Roman law, and in particular by despotically governed countries where the rulers had a natural tendency to approve of the See also:maxims and to adopt the See also:language of the imperial Roman lawyers. A pragmatic sanction, as the term was used by them, was an expression of the will of the See also:sovereign or " the See also:prince," defining the limits of his own See also:power, or regulating the See also:succession. Justinian regulated the See also:government of See also:Italy after it had been reconquered from the See also:Ostrogoths by pragmatic sanctions. In after ages the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:France, See also:Charles VII., imposed limits on the claims of the popes to exercise See also:jurisdiction in his dominions by the pragmatic sanction of See also:Bourges in 1438. The See also:emperor Charles VI. settled the law of succession for the dominions of the See also:house of See also:Habsburg by pragmatic sanction first published on the 19th of See also:April 1713, and thereby prepared the way for the See also:great See also:war which ensued upon his See also:death. See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip V., the first of the See also:Bourbon See also:kings of See also:Spain, introduced the Salic law by a pragmatic sanction, and his descendant, See also:Ferdinand VII., revoked it by another. The term was not used in See also:England even for such things as the will by which See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII. regulated the succession to the See also:throne, which would have been a pragmatic sanction in a See also:country of the Roman law. The term and the thing signified by it have become obsolete owing to the spread of constitutional government in See also:modern See also:Europe.
End of Article: PRAGMATIC SANCTION (Lat. pragmatica sanctio, from the Gr. apayµa, business)
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