Absolute Rule
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In practice
A rule of court commanding something to be done asolutely, and at all events, as distinguished from a rule nisi, wich commands something to be done, wnless cause be shown against it; or, as the latter is more commonly called, arule to show cause why a thing should not bedone.
3 Steph. Comm. 680.