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Rule or ruling may refer to:

Education

Human activity

  • The exercise of political or personal control by someone with authority or power
  • Business rule, a rule pertaining to the structure or behavior internal to a business
  • School rule, a rule that is part of school discipline
  • Sport rule, a rule that defines how a sport is played
  • Game rule, a rule that defines how a game is played
  • Morality, 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
  • 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
  • Slide rule, a mechanical analog computer

Science

Law and government

  • Advance tax ruling, a tool for conforming taxation arrangements
  • Court order, a decision by a court
  • Government
  • In rulemaking by the federal government of the United States, a regulation mandated by Congress, but written or expanded upon by the executive branch
  • Law, which may informally be called a "rule"
  • 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
  • Procedural law, a ruleset governing the application of laws to cases
  • Rule of law, government based not on arbitrary decisions of officials but on laws

Geography

Literature

Music

  • Ja Rule (born 1976), hip hop artist

Albums

Songs

Other uses

See also