LaiNomic/mutable_rules/212_Judging.md
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If players disagree about the legality of a move or the interpretation or
application of a rule, then the player preceding the one moving is to be the
Judge and decide the question. Disagreement for the purposes of this rule may
be created by the insistence of any player. This process is called *invoking
Judgment*.
When Judgment has been invoked, the next player may not begin his or her turn
without the consent of a majority of the other players.
The Judge's Judgment may be overruled only by a unanimous vote of the other
players taken before the next turn is begun. If a Judge's Judgment is overruled,
then the player preceding the Judge in the playing order becomes the new Judge
for the question, and so on, except that no player is to be Judge during his or
her own turn or during the turn of a team-mate.
Unless a Judge is overruled, one Judge settles all questions arising from the
game until the next turn is begun, including questions as to his or her own
legitimacy and jurisdiction as Judge.
New Judges are not bound by the decisions of old Judges. New Judges may,
however, settle only those questions on which the players currently disagree
and that affect the completion of the turn in which Judgment was invoked. All
decisions by Judges shall be in accordance with all the rules then in effect;
but when the rules are silent, inconsistent, or unclear on the point at issue,
then the Judge shall consider game-custom and the spirit of the game before
applying other standards.