Rule

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Rule, ruler, ruling usually refers to standards for activities. They may refer to:

Human activity

• Business rule, a rule pertaining to the structure or behavior internal to an organization
• Game rules, rules that define how a game is played
• Moral, a rule or element of a moral code for guiding choices in human behavior
• Norm (philosophy), a kind of sentence or a reason to act, feel or believe
• Regulation of sport, rules for a sport
• Rule of thumb, a principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable for every situation
• Unspoken rule, an assumed rule of human behavior that is not voiced or written down

Science

• Norm (sociology), a term in sociology describing explicit or implicit rules used within society or by a group (i.e. social norms)
• Rule of inference or transformation rule, a term in logic for a function which takes premises and returns a conclusion
• "Rule X" elementary cellular automaton, where X is a number between 0-255 characterizing a specific model (e.g. Rule 110)
• Ruler, or "rule"; a distance measuring device

Law and government

• Procedural law, a ruleset governing the application of laws to cases
  • A law, which may informally be called a "rule"
  • A court order, a decision by a court
• Military rule, governance by a military body
• Monastic rule, a collection of precepts that guides the life of monks or nuns in a religious order
• Rule of law, a government that is not ruled by a person but by laws, as in a constitutional republic; no one person can rule and even top government officials are ruled by the law. In addition to this, in such a government, laws cannot be enacted which would undermine Rule of Law via the setup of separate frameworks of rules for separate subsets of the population.
• Ruler, see monarch, the person who rules a country
• In rulemaking by the federal government of the United States, a regulation mandated by Congress, but written or expanded upon by the Executive Branch

Books

• The Rules, a bestselling self-help book

Entertainment

• Ja Rule, a hip hop artist
  • R.U.L.E., a 2005 greatest hits album by Ja Rule
• Rule (song), a song by rapper Nas
• "Rule/Sparkle", a song by Ayumi Hamasaki
• Rules (album), an album by the band The Whitest Boy Alive
• "Rules" (song), a KMFDM song
• "Rules", a Shakira song included on her album Laundry Service
• Rules: Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula, a 2003 Bollywood film
• The Rule, an American pop/R&B band
  • The Rule (album), self-titled album by The Rule

Surname

• Bert L. Rule (1891–1878), Tin Pan Alley composer & arranger
• Albert Leroy Rule, World War I documentary film producer & director
• Herbert Rule, Tin Pan Alley lyricist
• Bert H. Rule (aka Albert, Bertie), film editor, active from 1932 to 1969

Other uses

• Rule (horse), American racehorse
• Rule, Texas, a town in Texas, United States
• Rules (restaurant), London's oldest restaurant

See also

• All Wikipedia pages beginning with Rule of
• All Wikipedia pages beginning with Rules of
• All Wikipedia pages beginning with Rules for