rule

I verb

To command or require by a rule of court; as, to rule the sheriff to return the writ, to rule the defendant to plead, to rule against an objection to evidence. To settle or decide a point of law arising upon a trial, and, when it is said of a judge presiding at such a trial that he "ruled" so and so, it is meant that he laid down, settled, or decided such and such to be the law

II noun

An established standard, guide, or regulation. Prescribed guide for conduct or action, regulation or principle. State ex rel. Villines v. Freeman, Okl., 370 P.2d 307, 309.

A principle or regulation set up by authority, prescribing or directing action or forbearance; as, the rules of a legislative body, of a company, court, public office, of the law, of ethics. Precept attaching a definite detailed legal consequence to a definite detailed state of facts. An order made by a court, at the instance of one of the parties to a suit, commanding a ministerial officer, or the opposite party, to do some act, or to show cause why some act should not be done. It is usually upon some interlocutory matter.

See also decree

- order

For purposes of the Administrative Procedure Act, includes each agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect that implements, interprets, or prescribes law or policy. Vega v. National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., Inc., 67 Haw. 148, 682 P.2d 73, 78.

A rule of law. Thus, we speak of the rule against perpetuities; the Rule in Shelley's Case, etc.

See also rule of law, below