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pragmatic sanction

NOUN
  1. an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land

How To Use pragmatic sanction In A Sentence

  • 1713 - With no living male heirs, Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa.
  • They were satisfied with this pragmatic sanction.
  • This is to be the work of the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges.
  • The clergy of France met at Bourges in 1432, and with their consent the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges was published by the king in 1438.
  • He established greater control over the Church in the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges of 1438, which upheld the right of the French Church to administer its property and nominate clergy to benefices, independently of the papacy.
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