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There are at least [130
rules](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note) of use of the
Death Note. Do they all fit on the one last page of the notebook (how?) or do
they come from some other source? Was it ever addressed in the manga or the
anime?


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Fitting rules of Death Note


Ryuk didn't write all rules in the deathnote, only the most important ones:

> "The human whose name is written in this note shall die."  
>  "This note will not take effect unless the writer has the subject's face in
> their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same
> name will not be affected."  
>  "If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the
> subject's name, it will happen."  
>  "If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will simply die of a
> heart attack."  
>  "After writing the cause of death, the details of the death should be
> written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds (400 seconds)."

The other rules exist, but Ryuk never wrote them into Sidoh's book and only
explains them.


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The Death Notes originally do not have any rules written on them. Ryuk dropped
a Death Note in the human world because he was "bored", so he only wrote
enough rules to get a human interested in it (and he wrote them in English,
the most common language). During the course of the plot, Light infers several
rules _not written in the book_ through his experiments. (Even Ryuk admitted
once he did not know of one such rule.)


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