Day-Rule
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
or DAY-WRIT.
In English law
A permission granted to a prisoner to go out of prison, for the purpose of transacting his business, as to hear a case in which he is concerned at the assizes, ete.
Abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. ¢. 22, § 12.