Absolute Rule
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In practice
A rule of court commanding something to be done absolutely, and at all events, as distinguished from a rule nisi, which commands something to be done, unless cause be shown against it; (or, as the latter is more commonly called, a rule to show cause why a thing should not be done.) 3 Steph. Com. 680.
1 Tidd's Pract. 485.
See Nisi, Rule.