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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King's Regulations

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

The choice was absolutely sound, and success was achieved by methods which did not always follow strictly the letter of King's Regulations.

From John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

There are about seven million ways of breaking the King's Regulations; to keep one you have to break another.

From Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey

Once he slipped into anecdote à propos of the helplessness of British soldiers in any matter outside the scope of the King's Regulations.

From The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy

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