Important decisions of the College of Arms have been organized by time-period and topic, for quick reference. In recent years, these mainly have to do with submissions processing. All the collections that have been compiled are available in hardcopy form from Free Trumpet Press West.

These articles commonly make use of a special notation to represent characters outside the typical English alphabet and US-ASCII encoding. This notation is called Da'ud Notation, after its developer, Da'ud ibn Auda.

Newer rulings have not yet been indexed. In the meantime, they and older rulings can be searched using the search box on the Morsulus website: http://www.morsulus.org/

Disclaimer:

The College's standards have changed dramatically over time. Newer rulings override old ones, so past precedents do not necessarily indicate the current policies and practices of the College.

Collections of Precedents:

• Compiled Name Precedents (Work In Progress; current through May 2004)
• The 2nd Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (April 2011 - August 2011)
  • Collected Armory Precedents
  • (Name precedents are being incorporated directly into the Compiled Names Precedents project.)
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• The 1st Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008)
  • Collected Armory Precedents
  • (Name precedents are being incorporated directly into the Compiled Names Precedents project.)
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• The 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005)
  • DRAFT Collected Armory Precedents
  • DRAFT Collected Name Precedents
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• The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004)
  • Collected Armory Precedents
  • Collected Name Precedents
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• The Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004)
  • Collected Armory Precedents
  • (Name precedents have been compiled directly into the Compiled Names Precedents project.)
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• The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001)
  • Collected Armory Precedents
  • Collected Name Precedents
  • Collected submission returns by name (449 kB)
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• The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999)
  • Single HTML Document (300 kb)
  • Collected submission returns by name (889 kb)
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• The 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996)
  • Collected Precedents:
    • the 1st part (November 1993 - June 1994)
    • the 2nd part (July 1994 - June 1996)
  • Single HTML Documents:
    • the 1st part (283kb)
    • the 2nd part (370kb)
  • Collected submission returns by name (822kB)
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• The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993)
  • Collected precedents
  • Single HTML Document (1229kb)
  • Collected submission returns by name (622kb)
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• The 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992)
  • Collected Precedents:
    • the 1st year (June 1990 - June 1991)
    • the 2nd year (July 1991 - June 1992)
  • Single HTML Document (518kb)
  • Collected submission returns by name (539kb)
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• The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990)
  • Collected Precedents
  • Single HTML Document (593kb)
  • Collected submission returns by name (1286kb)
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• The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986)
  • Single HTML Document (192kb)
  • Collected submission returns by name (446kB)
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• The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984)
  • Collected Precedents
  • Single HTML Document (302kb)
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• The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979)
  • Collected Precedents
  • Single HTML Document (151kb)
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• The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975)
  • Collected Precedents
  • Single HTML Document (214kb)
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