Rubric
(from the Latin rubrica, “red ochre,” or “vermilion”).
An ordinance or law was by the Romans called a rubric, because it was
written with vermilion, in contradistinction to praetorian edicts or
rules of the court, which were posted on a white ground. (Juvenal, xiv. 192.)
“Rubrica vetavit” = the law has forbidden it. (Persius, v. 99.)
“Praetores edicta sua in albo proponebant, acrubricas [i.e. jus civile] translalerunt.” —Quintilian, xii. 3, 11.
“Rules and orders directing how, when, and where all things in divine
service are to be performed were formerly printed in red characters
(now generally in italics), and called rubrics.” —Hook: Church
Dictionary.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Rubric from Infoplease:
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