Day Rule
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In 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.
Tidd. Pr. 961. Abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22.