Day Rule
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or DAY WRIT. 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, Prac. 961. Abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22, § 12.