Bar in Europe
Definition of Bar
A partition across a Court of Justice. Only King’s Counsel, solicitors (as officers of the Court) and parties are allowed within the bar.
At Bar means in Court. A trial at Bar is a trial by a jury before a full Court (three or four Judges) instead of before a single Judge as at Nisi Prius
The Bar means the professional body of barristers
In the Houses of Lords and Commons the bar forms the boundary of the House, and therefore all persons who have to address the House appear at the bar for that purpose
To bar a right is to destroy or end it, e.g., bar an entail or a debt under a Statute of Limitations, etc
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Definition of Bar is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.
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