When the "parlement" showed signs of hostility against Aiguillon, Maupeou read letters patent from Louis XV annulling the proceedings. Louis replied to remonstrances from the "parlement" by a "lit de justice", in which he demanded the surrender of the procedural minutes. On 27 November 1770 appeared the "Édit de règlement et de discipline", which was promulgated by the chancellor, forbidding the union of the various branches of the "parlement" and correspondence with the provincial magistratures. It also made a strike on the part of the "parlement" punishable by confiscation of goods, and forbade further obstruction to the registration of royal decrees after the royal reply had been given to a first remonstrance. This edict the magistrates refused to register, and it was registered in a "lit de justice" held at Versailles on 7 December, whereupon the "parlement" was suspended in its functions.