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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Example Sentences

The King's regulations in the 18th century Navy entitled every serving seaman to 3 square meals per day, square because gruel was served in square platters capable of being stacked and conveyed easily from the galley to the gun decks.

From BBC

And look up Field and General Court-Martials in the King’s Regulations and you’ll know what your Powers are.”

From Project Gutenberg

This writer, who is an ardent admirer of Frontenac, seems to regard it as a thing quite to be expected that the king's representative should seize the opportunity to violate the king's regulations.

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According to Meulles, the governor not only carried on trade on his own account contrary to the king's regulations, but trade in its most illegal form, that is to say with the English.

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And when they had told us about Simla and all the injustices they had suffered in the matter of promotion or pay, they ousted some young and vigorous Temporary fellow who at least knew something of fighting, if there were stray passages in the King's Regulations which he did not know by heart; and in about a week their commands were discontented and slack.

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