Footnote 641: Art. 112. Ibid., II., 286.[(Back)]
Footnote 642: On the Swiss federal judiciary see Vincent, Government in Switzerland, Chap. 15; Adams and Cunningham, The Swiss Confederation, Chap. 5.[(Back)]
Footnote 643: This designation was first employed in a diploma of the Emperor Francis Joseph I., November 14, 1868 (see p. [459]).[(Back)]
Footnote 644: Lowell, Governments and Parties, II., 177.[(Back)]
Footnote 645: See p. [448].[(Back)]
Footnote 646: At the diet of Pressburg, in 1687-1688, the Hungarian crown had been declared hereditary in the house of Hapsburg, and the Austrian heir, Joseph, had been crowned hereditary king. In 1697 Transylvania was united to the Hungarian monarchy. The banat of Temesvár was acquired by the Hapsburgs in 1718. The term "banat" denotes a border district, or march.[(Back)]
Footnote 647: J. Andrássy, Development of Hungarian Constitutional Liberty (London, 1908), 93.[(Back)]
Footnote 648: Charles VI. as emperor.[(Back)]
Footnote 649: The Pragmatic Sanction was accepted at different dates by the various diets of the Austro-Hungarian lands: in 1713 by Croatia, and from 1720 to 1724 by the other diets. It was finally proclaimed a fundamental law in 1724.[(Back)]
Footnote 650: As emperor of Austria, Francis I. (1804-1835).[(Back)]