Rules of the Death Note/Manga Chapter Rules

see also Fake Death Note Rules

The following is a list of all the rules for the Death Note and shinigami that have been revealed to the reader/viewer throughout Death Note, and in the thirteenth manga, How to Read. Some rules have been changed in How to Read, from what was mentioned in the manga. For instance, Sidoh states that for him to get his notebook back, he had to wait for the owner to die, or use up all of the pages, whereas in How to Read, it states that there are an unlimited amount of pages in the Death Note.

Other

 * 1) All humans, without exception, will eventually die.
 * 2) After they die, the place they go to is MU (nothingness).
 * 3) Once dead, they can never come back to life.