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King's Regulations

British

plural noun

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

It is wonderful what things one can do in the Army which are not according to the King's Regulations.

From The Great War As I Saw It by Scott, Frederick George

He was free, that is, if one disregarded the kit hung about his person, or which, despite King's Regulations, he carried in his hands.

From Simon Called Peter by Keable, Robert

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