Brewer's: Trials at Bar

Trials which occupy the attention of the four judges in the superior court, instead of at Nisi Prius. These trials are for very difficult causes, and before special juries. (See Wharton: Law Lexicon article “Bar.”)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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