(in England) a collective name for junior barristers who plead from outside the bar of the court
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out′er bar′, [Eng. Law.]
- British Terms, Lawa 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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