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Day Rule, Or Day Writ

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Day-rule, or day-writ, a permission 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, etc. Abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22, s. 12.

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