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UKAZ, or UKASE (Russ., from ukazat, a...

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 564 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UKAZ, or UKASE (Russ., from ukazat, a shortened See also:form of ukazlivat, to show, announce, prescribe)  , a See also:term applied in See also:Russia to an See also:edict or See also:ordinance, legislative or administrative, having the force of See also:law . A See also:ukaz proceeds either from the See also:emperor or from the See also:senate, which has the See also:power of issuing such ordinances for the purpose of carrying out existing decrees . All such decrees are promulgated by the senate . A difference is See also:drawn between the ukaz signed by the emperor's See also:hand and his verbal ukaz, or See also:order, made upon a See also:report submitted to him .

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