Rules

Certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the proper authority, may reside. These limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls. So used in America.

See 3 Bibb 202.

The rules or permission to reside without the prison may be obtained by any person not committed criminally; 2 Stra. 845; nor for contempt; id. 817; by satisfying the marshal or w r arden or other authority of the security with which he may grant such permission. Proceedings in an action out of court, and Rules is used in the plural to indicate rule day: Thus “May Rules.” See Steam-Gauge & Lantern Co. v. Meyrose, 27 Fed. 215.