Rule 9: If the cause of death is not specified, the person will die of a heart attack.

Rule 8: If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of the victim's name, it will happen.For example, the Death Note will still take effect if the victim's last name is written on the front page and first name on the back. However, the front and back of a page is considered to be one page. Rule 7: The Death Note will not take effect if a victim's name is written on several different pages.

Rule 3: The Death Note will not whose name has been.Rule 2: This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his or her name.Rule 1: The human whose name is written in this note shall die.These filled in portions are marked like this. Note: Some content is cut off the original manga rules are used to fill in the unseen parts when the rules appear to be otherwise identical. Rule 32 states that 'once the victim's name has been written, the individual's death can never be averted', but this is contradicted with the invented Rule 89, which states that a victim can be spared if their page is destroyed. Several rules reference heart attacks being a default cause of death, although it is not so in the film. Some of the rules contradict what is shown in the film. Notably, many more rules were written in the notebook for Light to reference. Some major changes were made to the original rules. These are the rules from Netflix's 2017 Death Note film.

Death note rules 1-10