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King's Regulations

British  

plural noun

  1. (in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is male) the code of conduct for members of the armed forces that deals with discipline, aspects of military law, etc

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The peacetime R.A.F. would not have Bader without legs, but when war began, not even the King's Regulations could hold him back.

From Time Magazine Archive

By King's Regulations an officer under arrest may wear neither sword nor spurs.

From Time Magazine Archive

I fined him for neglecting to observe the King's Regulations and Orders, and his comrades who had warned him against trying to "put anything over" on the Commanding Officer gave him the laugh.

From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister

But the subject of the King's Regulations was even more distasteful to the cuddy than Pine's interminable anecdotes, and Mrs. Vickers hastened to change the subject.

From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

It's a fact: look it up in the King's Regulations.

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.