• The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
• This note will not take effect unless the writer has the persons 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 persons name, it will happen.
• If the cause of death is not specified the person will simply die of a heart attack.
• After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
• This note shall become the property of the human world, once it touches the ground on (arrival in) the human world.
• The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of its original owner, i.e. a god of death.
• The human who uses this note can neither go to Heaven nor Hell.
• If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds after writing the cause of death will be a heart attack, the time of death can be manipulated, and the time can go into effect within 40 seconds after writing the name.
• The human who touches the DEATH NOTE can recognise the image and voice of its original owner, a god of death, even if the human is not the owner of the note.
• The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by that human.
• The specific scope of the condition for death is not known to the gods of death, either. So, you must examine and find out.
• One page taken from the DEATH NOTE, or even a fragment of the page, contains the full effects of the note.
• The instrument to write with can be anything, (e.g. cosmetics, blood, etc) as long as it can write directly onto the note and remains as legible letters.
• Even the original owners of the DEATH NOTE, gods of death, do not know much about the note.