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Rule or ruling may refer to:

Human activity

• 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
• 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
• 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

• Rule of inference or transformation rule, a term in logic for a function which takes premises and returns a conclusion
• Phrase structure rule or rewrite rule, used in some theories of linguistics
• "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
• Phonological rule
• Social norm, explicit or implicit rules used within society or by a group

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

• Rule, Arkansas
• Rule, Texas, a town in Texas, United States

Literature

• The Rules, bestselling self-help book
• Rules (novel), 2007 Newbery Honor book by Cynthia Lord
• "The Rulers", a science fiction short story by A. E. van Vogt

Music

• Ja Rule (born 1976), hip hop artist

Albums

• R.U.L.E., a 2005 greatest hits album by Ja Rule
• Rule, an album by Japanese rock singer Anna Tsuchiya
• Rules (album), a 2009 album by the band The Whitest Boy Alive

Songs

• "Rule" (song), a 2001 song by rapper Nas
• "Rule/Sparkle", a 2009 song by Ayumi Hamasaki
• "Rules" (song), a 1996 KMFDM song
• "Rules" (Shakira song), a 2001 Shakira song on her album Laundry Service
• "Rules" (Doja Cat song), a 2019 song by Doja Cat from her album Hot Pink

Other uses

• Rule (surname)
• Ruler (film), a 2019 Telugu-language film
• Rules: Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula, a 2003 Bollywood film
• rule: a snippet of code which can perform email filtering
• Rule (horse) (born 2007), American racehorse
• RULE Royal University of Law and Economics, Cambodia
• Rules (restaurant), upscale English restaurant in London

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Rule of
• All pages with titles beginning with Rules of
• All pages with titles beginning with Rules for
• Debate (parliamentary procedure) for rules governing discussion on the merits of a pending question.

• Disambiguation pages
• Place name disambiguation pages