| 释义 |
Day rule
| (Eng. Law) | an order of court (now abolished) allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go beyond the prison limits for a single day. |
See also: Day Day rule
Related to Day rule: rue the dayDAY RULE, or DAY WRIT, English practice. A rule or order of the court, by which a prisoner on civil process, and not committed, is enabled, in term time, to go out of the prison, and its rule or bounds; a prisoner is enabled to quit the prison, for more or less time, by three kinds of rules, namely: 1. The day-rule. 2. The term-rule; and 3. The rules. See 9 East, R. 151. |