Promulgation

The promulgation (Latin promulgare " publicly announce " ) of a law means that this is set by the first public reading in force.

This act is directly binding, mostly he was supported by the fact that the inhabitants of the communities in which a law should come into force, were obliged to listen to the reading; the colloquial expression " to inhabitants a law " describes this practice.

Since laws are now published only in written form, for example in Germany and Austria in the respective Federal Law Gazette, there is no longer the promulgation of secular rules. However, it is still maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, promulgated the Constitutions and Decrees in the Vatican, at the same time carried the officially binding footprint in the papal Official Journal, Acta Apostolicae Sedis.