outer bar

American  

Or utter bar

noun

English Law.

1. a body of the junior counsel who sit and plead outside the dividing bar in the court, ranking below the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel.

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outer bar British  

noun

1. (in England) a collective name for junior barristers who plead from outside the bar of the court Compare Queen's Counsel

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Example Sentences

"I was in the outer bar in London when it happened. I just noticed that a shot was fired, and I was hit by a shard of glass. There were more and more and more shots, so I escaped into the inner bar and tried to get as many as possible with me," he said.

From BBC

As in the case of the ill-fated Giovanni, a vessel usually brings up on the outer bar, and pounds over it at the next tide, merely to encounter the inward shoal.

From Project Gutenberg

Out′ermost, most or farthest out: most distant.—Outer bar, the junior barristers who plead outside the bar in court, as distinguished from King's Counsel and others who plead within the bar.

From Project Gutenberg

We had taken a Chinese pilot on board, and by 25th July were in sight of Gutzlaff, a small islet of rock 210 feet high, the best land-mark of the "Son of Ocean," and just before sunset anchored off the outer bar.

From Project Gutenberg

It will be as much as she can manage to cross the outer bar.

From Project Gutenberg