Government Decrees (Religious Legal Instruments)

Orders and regulations issued by a government that bear on religion, such as the Bengal Sati Regulation of 1829, the Code of Indian Offenses and the Chinese order on the reincarnation of living Buddhas. An entry belongs here when its article presents an executive or administrative act. The group page lists texts of the same legal kind together so that a reader can compare how religious authority and state power are put into writing.