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| | The Succession Laws of Modena |
 | | The preliminaries of Villafranca between France and Austria called for a restoration of the duke, and the Sardinian commissary ceded power on August 8, but an elected assembly voted the destitution of the house of Austria-Este and the perpetual exclusion of princes of the house of Habsburg-Lorraine on August 20. |
 | | Et sicuti omnium eorum, quae in praesente secreta conventione continentur, primaria basis est arctissima et indissolubilis unio inter augustam domum Austriacam et Ser.mam Estensem in Italia domum earumque status, ditiones ac subditos, ita conventum porro est, subditos hosce in alterius contrahentis ditionibus iisdem juribus et immunitatibus, quibus indigenae ibidem gaudent, mutuo gaudere debere. |
 | | Quapropter in casum, uti dicturn est, extinguendae citius aut tardius Estensis in Italia stirpis legitimae masculae, et non aliter, vigore praesentis articuli ac proinde vigore solemnis et irrevocabilis pacti conventi, idem. |
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