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

Reaching the outer bar, the outer reef or that flowing water in the middle of an inlet will be important.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Drumheads" use heavy-action, 12-foot surf rods called heavers to launch eight-ounce leads and menhaden chunks into the stratosphere and onto the outer bar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fish the outer bar using a steady retrieve with a continuous splashing action.

From Time Magazine Archive

With a two-ounce Gibbs bottle plug coupled with a Red Gill dropper, I started working an outer bar that blocked some of the surf.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was Captain Porter's design to assemble his mortar vessels, which had started the day previous from Ship Island, at the outer bar of Mobile Bay.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various