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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*.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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