User blog comment:Marcpasquin/American Standardised English/@comment-32656-20110728034939

Looking at an Etymology dictionary, and a thesaurus, the word "institute" in that context has much the same meaning as that of the word "rule." "Rule" comes from latin, but it replaced an Old English word, "wealdan," which means basically the same thing - "regulation governing play of a game, etc." Old English, of course, is Anglo-Saxon, and thus Germanic, in origin.

Should work nicely, I'd expect.