BURETTE

Bull, Golden. In German History, a term applied particularly to a statute or enactment of the emperor Charles IV., published a. d. 1356, in two dietS held in succe ion at Nurimberg and Metz, for the purpose of fixing the laws in the election of the emperor, and of regulating the number and privileges of the electors. (Churfiirsten.) The original copy of this instrument (which was long regarded as the Magna Charta of the German Empire, and continued in operation till its di olution in 1806) is preserved at Frankfort on the Maine, and has a seal of gold appendant; whence the appellation Golden Bull is derived. [s. 185]