A Hatti-Sheriff (or Hatti-Sherif) is an edict of the Sultan which is irrevocable.
Although "irrevocable", many of them has proved a dead letter.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public ___domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - Mention of the Ottoman Sultan making a Hatti Sheriff.
- Mention in the book Residence in Bulgaria of the Hatti Sheriff of Gul Haue.
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