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This is a list of all known Imperial Laws or set of laws, ranging from imperial planets' legislations to Mechanicus law, with a brief description of each.

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C

Name Notes Source(s)
Corpus Presidium Calixis The legal code for the Calixis Sector. [1]
Crimson Accords of Mars Considered the cornerstone of doctrinal law created during the foundation of the Mechanicum during the Age of Strife. The Accords forever forbade the creation of the abominable and soulless intelligences known as the Silica Animus and pronounced a death sentence on any Silica Animus who remained and any in the Mechanicum who tried to create them. These accords however allowed the survival and creation of 'lesser and righteous works' of synthetic life deemed sacred. [2]

D

Name Notes Source(s)
Decree Passive The Decree Passive (0001288/M36) was a decree passed by the High Lords of Terra in the aftermath of the Reign of Blood which placed severe limitations on the Ecclesiarchy's ability to wage war. [3]
Dispensatus Anathema An Imperial law proclaimed by Roboute Guilliman in M42 which officially restored the Sisters of Silence into the hierarchy of the Imperium. [4]

E

Name Notes Source(s)
Edict of Nikaea Proclamation made by the Emperor of Mankind during the Council of Nikaea which decreed that the Legiones Astartes, beyond the use of Navigators and Astropaths, would no longer employ psykers. They were to disband their Librarius departments, the Librarians re-deployed to the battle companies and the primarchs themselves were to refrain from using any psychic powers they possessed. [5]
Edict of Obliteration An imperial edict declared by the High Lords of Terra use to censored historical events or certain people [6]
Edict of Restraint Imperial decree Proclaimed by Lord Commander Roboute Guilliman in cooperation with Adeptus Custodes Captain-General Constantin Valdor in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, the Edict tied the Custodes to Terra and forbid them from leaving the planet in force. [7]

L

Name Notes Source(s)
Lex Imperialis The Lex Imperialis, also called the Dictates Imperialis, is the legal code of the Imperium. Claimed to be the word of the Emperor himself, it is a vast body of laws and codes compiled over ten thousand years that Judges of the Adeptus Arbites spend their entire lives studying and compiling in the Book of Judgement. [8]
Lore Mechanicus The legal code of the Adeptus Mechanicus, which is enforced by the Collegiate Extremis. [9]

M

Name Notes Source(s)
Magisterium Lex Ultima An Imperial law, that renders no one within the Imperium but the Emperor Himself, capable of giving the Adeptus Custodes an order. [4b]


P

Name Notes Source(s)
Pax Helmawr Set of laws of the Imperial Hive World Necromunda. [10]

T

Name Notes Source(s)
Treaty of Olympus A treaty betwen the Imperium of Man and the Mechanicum of Mars, made at the start of the Great Crusade binding the two empires together. [13]

U

Name Notes Source(s)
Ultimaris Decree A proclamation made by Lord Commander Roboute Guilliman in order to aid the beleaguered Deathwatch. [11]

W

Name Notes Source(s)
Writ Illuminat A treaty between the Ecclesiarchy and the Adeptus Mechanicus [12]

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