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<div class="gl-legal-kicker">IMPERIAL DECREES · TENTH IMPERIUM</div>
<div class="gl-legal-title">IMPERIAL DECREE 26-003</div>
<div class="gl-legal-subtitle">Reception, Continuity, and Classification of Prior Imperial Law</div>
<div class="gl-legal-authority">His Most Imperial Majesty Rasim Aeon, Emperor and Grand Sovereign of the Aksum Imperium</div>
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! Instrument
| Imperial Decree 26-003
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! Given
| 7 October 2026 CE · 18 YI
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! Status
| Current and Effective
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! Imperial Code
| Codification pending
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! Great Seal Registry
| GS-2026-004
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<div class="gl-source-note">'''Official publication copy.''' Codification remains a separate legal event. The authenticated source text controls over editorial presentation.</div>

== Preamble ==

WHEREAS the Aksum Imperium is one continuous sovereign polity under the Imperial Crown;
WHEREAS the Fracture interrupted effective Imperial administration without dissolving the Imperium, extinguishing the Crown, surrendering Imperial inheritance, or erasing the lawful history of prior constitutional eras;
WHEREAS the Constitution and Covenant of the Aksum Imperium is the supreme governing law of the Tenth Imperium;
WHEREAS Imperial Decree 26-001 requires the orderly recovery, reception, review, classification, amendment, republication, supersession, and repeal of prior Imperial law;
WHEREAS Imperial Decree 26-002 establishes the lawful system of Imperial instruments, citation, authentication, registration, codification, publication, and preservation;
WHEREAS the Fracture caused loss, duplication, inconsistent compilations, incomplete records, disputed numbering, missing final texts, and other defects among surviving Imperial records;
NOW, THEREFORE, We, exercising the supreme governing authority of the Grand Sovereign, do hereby decree:

== Article I — Continuity of Prior Authority ==
1. Prior Imperial law shall not be void merely because it arose during an earlier constitutional era.
2. Prior Imperial authority shall possess only such present force as is consistent with the Constitution, Imperial Decrees 26-001 and 26-002, this Decree, and later controlling Imperial law.
3. Historical preservation does not by itself confer continuing legal force.
4. No prior instrument shall become current law merely because it survives in an archive, database, application, forum, migration, summary, or other secondary record.

== Article II — Classes of Reception ==
Prior instruments may be classified as: Received and Continuing; Received Provisionally; Amended; Superseded or Restated; Expired or Historical; Reconstruction Pending; or Repealed.
No classification shall erase the historical existence or provenance of the underlying instrument.

== Article III — Conflicts and Supremacy ==
1. The Constitution controls all inconsistent prior authority.
2. A later lawful Imperial instrument controls an earlier instrument within its lawful scope.
3. Where only part of an earlier instrument conflicts with current law, only the inconsistent part shall lose current effect unless otherwise provided.
4. Clerical errors, typographical defects, duplicate numbering, title mismatches, archival labels, database fields, or technical migrations shall not amend Imperial law.
5. Genuine conflicts shall be preserved and referred for lawful determination.

== Article IV — Prior Offices, Appointments, and Institutions ==
1. A prior office or institution may continue only to the extent that its legal function remains constitutionally valid, has not been superseded, remains capable of lawful operation, and has been received or recognized by competent authority.
2. Survival of an office does not automatically continue a former officeholder.
3. Expired, ended, vacated, suspended, historical, or superseded appointments shall remain preserved without creating current authority.
4. Noble dignity, House status, government office, territorial stewardship, Imperial Service billet, and technical administrative access shall remain distinct.

== Article V — Reconstruction ==
1. The Reconstruction Register shall record missing, incomplete, conflicting, unauthenticated, reconstructed, and disputed materials.
2. Reconstructed text shall not be represented as an authenticated original unless authenticity has been established.
3. Material source variants shall be preserved until lawful reconciliation.
4. Approved reconstruction sources may guide restoration where expressly authorized while retaining their true evidentiary status.

== Article VI — Reception Schedule ==
1. The detailed disposition of prior instruments shall be maintained through an official Reception Schedule linked to the Official Legal Registry.
2. The Reception Schedule may record whether each prior instrument or provision is continuing, provisional, amended, superseded, historical, reconstruction pending, or repealed.
3. The Reception Schedule shall not independently create, amend, or repeal law.
4. Material legal changes identified during reception shall require the proper Imperial instrument.

== Article VII — Archival Preservation ==
1. Prior Imperial instruments shall remain preserved according to their lawful access classifications.
2. Superseded, amended, expired, or historical instruments shall not be destroyed merely because they are no longer current.
3. The Great Library and Official Legal Registry shall visibly distinguish current law from historical, reconstructed, superseded, draft, and pending material.

== Article VIII — Implementation ==
The Grand Keeper of Seals and Archives and other competent authorities may issue regulations, registry procedures, archival directives, and reconciliation records necessary to implement this Decree, provided that no administrative act changes substantive law without lawful authority.

== Article IX — Effective Date ==
This Decree shall take effect upon execution by the Grand Sovereign, authentication under the Great Seal, registration, and official publication.

=== All This By My Hand ===
'''VI ET ANIMO — BY STRENGTH AND COURAGE'''

'''His Most Imperial Majesty Rasim Aeon'''
'''Emperor and Grand Sovereign of the Aksum Imperium'''

Given at the Imperial Court this seventh day of October 2026 CE, in the Eighteenth Year of the Imperium (18 YI).

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