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ˈday-rule Formerly, ‘A rule or order of court, permitting a prisoner in custody in the King's Bench prison, etc. to go without the bounds of his prison for one day’ (Tomlins Law Dict.); also called day-writ.
c1750W. Stroud Mem. 37, I effected an Escape from the Tipstaff's Man, who had me out by a Day-rule. 1801Sporting Mag. XVII. 139 An officer confined in the King's Bench for debt, and a gentleman in the same situation in Newgate, having each obtained a day-rule, met, and quarrelled. 1808Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 127/1 Absenting themselves from their benefices by a kind of day-rule, like prisoners in the King's Bench. 1813Lamb Prol. to Coleridge's Remorse, Could Quin come stalking from Elysian glades, Or Garrick get a day-rule from the shades. |