regulatory document A document that either prescribes actions or prescribes the permissions, obligations, restrictions, or protections relating to public or legal policy. Cooper Stansbury Rules, legal specifications, guidelines (both categorical and hypothetical), that exist together in one regulatory document. Regulations may contain a single, or multiple rules. The clause ‘permissions, obligations, restrictions, or protections’ will be replaced with more general superclass, likely from d-acts, when that infrastructure becomes available. IOU Code. Document