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Restitution Edict

Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An edict issued in 1629, by Emperor Ferdinand II., requiring Protestants to restore to the Roman Catholic authorities all ecclesiastical property which they had appropriated at the peace of Passau in 1552.