After Russia's formal abolition of his principality (1866), he served as a general in the Imperial Russian Army.

Many states have abolished the clergy benefit by statute or judicial decision; in others, it simply has fallen into disuse without formal abolition.

The case load was nevertheless so overwhelming, that at the time of the formal abolition of the council a staggering 14,000 cases were still undecided.

Members of the higher nobility were able to absorb the formal abolition more easily.

By the late 1980s, it was not known to what extent the formal abolition of slavery had affected traditional land relationships among noble and former slave groups.

The remaining privilege is not exercised and was recommended for formal abolition in 1999, but has never been formally revoked.

At the national level, its creation signaled the formal abolition of the CDSA.

The formal abolition of slavery in 1981 has not led to real and effective abolition for various reasons, including a lack of legislation to ensure its implementation.

This was during the earlier period of British rule, and before its formal abolition.

Slave practices were again transformed with European colonization of Africa and the formal abolition of slavery in the early 1900s.