Neither pope nor emperor, he argued, could issue decrees against what is right.

The emperor issued a law on 14 July, 444, stripping the bureaucrats of their exemptions from the recruitment tax.

The emperor issued a legionary antoninianus celebrating the legion, and showing the legion's lion (259-260).

The campaign was launched when the emperor issued the Can Vuong edict that had been prepared by the regent.

Soon thereafter, the emperor issued an anti-Catholic edict in which persecution ensued.

No emperor issued general laws against the faith or its Church, and persecutions, such as they were, were carried out under the authority of local government officials.

The emperor issued an edict stating that 'the court was prepared and he was not far away'.

Nonetheless, for the first two centuries of the Christian era, no emperor issued general laws against the faith or its Church.

In 1792, the emperor issued a 29-point decree which appeared to tighten Qing control over Tibet.

In such cases the emperor would also issue an order waiving the use of the urn.