rule
prescription, including laws, regulations, instructions, guidelines, and social conventions; determinate method for performing any operation
touch-move rule
chess rule that, if a player deliberately touches a piece on their turn, then they must move (if own) or capture (if opponent’s) that piece if legal; if a player wishes to adjust a piece, they must announce “j’adoube” or similar
Chicago Principles
set of guiding principles about freedom of speech on college campuses in the United States
Fireworks bans in China
legal restrictions of fireworks in China
language rule
formal statement of the relationship between language units or structures
Three Laws of Robotics
set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov
Parkinson's law of triviality
focusing on what is irrelevant but easy to understand
parliamentary procedure
body of rules, ethics and customs governing meetings and other operations of legislative bodies and other deliberative assemblies
Pauline privilege
Catholic church's allowance on dissolution of marriage
Hill sphere
with regards to an astronomical body, the region in which it dominates the attraction of satellites
local ordinance
ordinance applying to a municipality or other locality
policy
principle or protocol to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes
Canons of Dort
judgment of the National Synod held in Dordrecht (Dort) in 1618–19 against Arminianism
point system
penalty point or demit system recording traffic and motoring offences
pedagogical freedom
designation for the discretionary and decision-making scope of a teacher in teaching and educational work
Marquess of Queensberry Rules
vintage rules system for boxing
equal-time rule
U.S. radio and television law
denunciation
announcement of the end of application of a treaty or protocol
royal instructions
legal rules from a sovereign to subordinates
Russian spelling rules
set of consistent principles governing the spelling of Russian words
sterile cockpit rule
rule that allows only essential business in the cockpit during critical flight operations
Broughton's Rules
an early set of boxing rules
driving slowly
traffic rules when driving a car
The Uniform Standards for Federal Land Acquisition
land appraisal standards for the United States government
Norwegian Law (Israel)
Amendment allows ministers or deputy ministers to resign from the Knesset
quota rule
rule that states that the rounded number of representative seats to be allocated to a party should be no more than the upper or lower roundings of its fractional representation
school rule
subconcept of behaviour management