单词 | day rule |
释义 | day rulen. Law. Now historical. A rule or order of court, authorizing a prisoner to leave prison for one day. Cf. earlier day writ n.Used esp. with reference to debtors held in the Fleet and King's Bench prisons in London. The practice was abolished in 1842 (see quot. 1842). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > judgement or decision of court > decision in writing or court order > permitting one day's release of prisoner day writ1649 day rule1697 horse1825 1697 Gen. Considerations Bill regulating Abuses of Prisons (single sheet) The Courts have thought it an equal Advantage both to Debtor and Creditor, that the Prisoners, by Day-Rules, &c, should have a Qualify'd Liberty (in Term-time at least) to solicite their Law Affairs, and dispose of their Estates and Effects to the best advantage. 1699 E. S. Compan. Debtors & Prisoners viii. 42 The business of these Gentlemen is to wait upon Prisoners when they go out upon their Day-Rules, and to fetch in those that are Escap'd. 1734 Case of Bankrupts & Insolvents Consider'd 71 The knavish Debtor..walks abroad daily and openly in Term Time, by means of Day Rules. c1751 W. Stroud Mem. 37 I effected an Escape from the Tipstaff's Man, who had me out by a Day-Rule. 1801 Sporting Mag. 17 139 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. 1813 C. Lamb in S. T. Coleridge Remorse Prol. Could Quin come stalking from Elysian glades, Or Garrick get a day-rule from the shades. 1842 Act 5 & 6 Victoria c. 22 §12 After the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful for the Marshal or Keeper of the Queen's Prison to grant any Day Rule. 1879 Irish Law Times & Solicitors' Jrnl. 30 Aug. 472/2 Such a person was allowed to purchase a ‘day rule’ and to go about among his friends on condition of returning. 1995 Commerc. Law Jrnl. 100 215 Debtors who could not afford to live in the Rules were allowed out of prison on ‘Day Rules’, on payment of a fee, in order..to negotiate with their creditors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1697 |
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