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The Pragmatic Sanction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Karl A. Roider Jr
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University

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The Pragmatic Sanction (pactum mutuae cessionis et successionis), formulated in 1703 and first made public in 1713, has been regarded as the legal basis for the unity of the disparate lands under Habsburg rule until the mid-nineteenth century. Although the Pragmatic Sanction did not prevent foreign powers from trying to seize Austrian territory, it did provide legal justification for the existence of the monarchy as an indivisible whole for well over one hundred years.

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The Pragmatic Sanction
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1972

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