King's Regulations
Britishplural noun
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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
Not King's Regulations, nor Military Law, nor any handbook devotes even a sub-paragraph to light and leading upon certain points which we have here to consider every day.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919 by Various
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
"Leave is a privilege and not a right," according to a hack quotation from the King's Regulations.
From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron
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