The rule of law is a political ideal that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including...

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule), short for Godwin's law of Nazi analogies, is an Internet adage asserting: "As an online discussion grows longer, the...

80/20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes...

Republicans for the Rule of Law is the principal initiative of the conservative, anti-Donald Trump political group Defending Democracy Together, founded...

with the stated mission of "working to advance the rule of law around the world". It produces the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index, a quantitative...

The golden rule in English law is one of the rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by the English courts. The rule can be used to avoid...

Benford's law for base 10, one of infinitely many cases of a generalized law regarding numbers expressed in arbitrary (integer) bases, which rules out the...

This law, also called Kirchhoff's first law, or Kirchhoff's junction rule, states that, for any node (junction) in an electrical circuit, the sum of currents...

The rule according to a higher law is a statement which expresses that no law may be enforced by the government unless it conforms with certain universal...

Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a...

The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player...

The rule of law is the legal principle that law should govern a nation, with everyone equal before the law. Rule of Law may also refer to: Rule of Law (horse)...

the best laws", was championed in ancient Greek philosophy and thinking as early as Plato. The debate between rule of man versus rule of law extends to...

according to consistent principled rules so that similar facts will yield similar results, lies at the heart of all common law systems. If a court finds that...

Bayes' law or Bayes' rule, after Thomas Bayes) gives a mathematical rule for inverting conditional probabilities, allowing us to find the probability of a...

The Laws of the Game are the codified rules of association football. The laws mention the number of players a team should have, the game length, the size...

The rule of law is one of the longest established common law fundamental principles of the governance of the United Kingdom, dating to Magna Carta of 1215...

The letter of the law and the spirit of the law are two possible ways to regard rules, or laws. To obey the letter of the law is to follow the literal...

Chinese law is one of the oldest legal traditions in the world. The core of modern Chinese law is based on Germanic-style civil law, socialist law, and traditional...

Rule of Law Initiative may refer to: Presidential Rule of Law Initiative, project between the U.S. and China to expand bilateral cooperation in the field...

or law of the land, that may consist of a variety of imperative and consensual rules. These may include customary law, conventions, statutory law, judge-made...

bit'. A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found...

third of the "Top 10" Internet rules and laws. A 2013 CNN story said Rule 34 was "likely the most famous" Internet rule that has become part of mainstream...

form of government and the term is absent from his work. The threat of "mob rule" to a democracy is restrained by ensuring that the rule of law protects...

Procedural law, a ruleset governing the application of laws to cases Rule of law, government based not on arbitrary decisions of officials but on laws Rule, Arkansas...

trigonometry, the law of cosines (also known as the cosine formula or cosine rule) relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosine of one of its angles...

Mahabharata and the texts of Manou's law urged mercy on unarmed or wounded enemies. The Bible and the Qur'an also contain rules of respect for the adversary...

Singapore, the rule of law doctrine has been the topic of considerable disagreement and debate, largely through differing conceptions of the doctrine....

and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama...

The Rule of Three (also Three-fold Law or Law of Return) is a religious tenet held by some Wiccans, Neo-Pagans and occultists. It states that whatever...