Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Rubrica

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

RUBRI'CA. Red ochre; thence, a law, or ordinance of the civil law; such, for instance, as the Twelve Tables, and in contradistinction to a praetor's edict, or rule of the courts (album); because the titles of the former, or, it may be, the entire text, were written with red ochre; whereas the latter were posted on a white ground, and inscribed in the usual form. Quint. xiii. 3. 11. Pers. v. 99. Compare Juv. xiv. 192.