Queen's Regulations
Britishplural noun
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Paulson: Well, the National Defense Act has a Queen’s Regulations and Orders, which is like a code of justice for the military.
From MSNBC • Oct. 23, 2019
I said; and being rather the reverse myself, I threw the Queen's Regulations at him, and he disappeared.
From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
The name of the volume formerly issued by the admiralty to all commanders of ships and vessels for their guidance; now superseded by Queen's Regulations.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Wherever the sovereign is residing the Royal Standard is hoisted; and on royal anniversaries and state occasions it is hoisted at certain fortresses or stations—home and foreign—specified in the Queen's Regulations.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Macgeorge, Andrew
The Queen's Regulations ordained that before a captain could win this prized position he must have completed a period of from five to six years of active service.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 by Various
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