Day Rule

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.

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.

or DAY-WRIT.

In English law. A permission granted to a prisoner to go out of prison, for the purpose of transacting his business, as to hear a case in which he is concerned at the assizes, ete. Abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. ¢. 22, § 12.

In English practice. A nile granted (or rather a certificate of the Court of Queen's Bench having granted a rule) to a prisoner, permitting him to go beyond the rules, (that is, the limits) of the prison for the purpose of transacting his business. So called because granted only for a day; the prisoner being required to return to the prison at or before nine o'clock of the evening of the day for which the rule was granted. 2 Archb. Pr. 131. Archb. New Pract. 529. 1 Tidd's Pr. 374. Sewel Vs Law of Sheriff, 69.

OR DAY WRIT, in English practice, is 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 rules or bounds; @ prisoner is enabled to quit the prison, for more or less time, by three kinds of rules, namely; 1, the dayrule; 2, the term-rule; and the rules. See 9 East, R. 151.