Opening A Rule
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The act of re storing or recalling a rule which has been made absolute to its conditional state, asa rule nisi, go as to readmit of cause being shown against the rule. Thus, when a rule to show cause has been made absolute under a inistaken impression that no counsel had been instructed to show cause against it, it is usual for the party at whose instance the rule was obtained to consent to have the rule opened, by which all the proceedings subsequent to the day when cause ought to have been shown against it are in effect nullified, and the rule is then argued in the ordinary way.
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