Law Dictionary Definitions

rule to show cause.1.SHOW-CAUSE PROCEEDING. 2. See show-cause order under ORDER(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

rules of procedure.See PROCEDURE(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

rules of order.See RULE(3). [Blacks Law 8th]

rules of navigation.Maritime law. The principles and regulations that govern the steering and sailing of vessels to avoid collisions. • Examples include the International Rules governing conduct on the high seas and the Inland Rules governing navigation on the inland waters of the United States and U.S. vessels on the Canadian waters of the Great…

rules of evidence.1.EVIDENCE(4).2.FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE. [Blacks Law 8th]

Rules of Decision Act.A federal statute (28 USCA § 1652) providing that a federal court, when exercising diversity jurisdiction, must apply the substantive law of the state in which the court sits. See diversity jurisdiction under JURISDICTION. [Cases: Federal Courts 373.] [Blacks Law 8th]

rules of court.See COURT RULES. [Blacks Law 8th]

rules of change.In the legal theory of H.L.A. Hart, the fundamental rules by which a legal system’s other rules are altered. • In Hart’s theory, a legal system’s primary rules are subject to identification and change by secondary rules. Among those rules are “rules of change,” which prescribe how laws are altered or repealed. Cf.…

rules committee.See COMMITTEE. [Blacks Law 8th]

rule of universal inheritance.See UNIVERSAL-INHERITANCE RULE. [Blacks Law 8th]