outer bar

outer bar

noun English Law.
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.
Also, utter bar.
Compare inner bar.
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Outer bar is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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outer bar
 
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Compare Queen's Counsel (in England) a collective name for junior barristers who plead from outside the bar of the court

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