The sovereign, whether speaking by rescript or by ordinance, never addressed the bulk of his subjects.
The constitutional rescript of the 28th of January 1848 had been withdrawn in favour of an electoral law for a national assembly, of whose 152 members 38 were to be nominated by the king and to form an Upper House (Landsting), while the remainder were to be elected by the people and to form a popular chamber (Folketing).
The rescript, however, was not incorporated in the Codes and perhaps was only a temporary measure.
A rescript of Constantius, in 355, inserted in Cod.
Neumann argued that the recrudescence of active persecution was initiated by a deliberate ad hoc rescript issued probably in A.D.