Bar, (1) a partition running across the courts of law, behind which all outer-barristers and every member of the public must sit or stand. Solicitors, being officers of the court, are admitted within it, as are also King's counsel, barristers with patents of precedence, and serjeants, in virtue of their ranks. Parties who appear in person also are placed within the bar on the floor of the court. (2) the profession of barrister, who is said to be 'called to the Bar.' See BARRISTER.
The term 'bar' in Entry 26-A(1) would also include a rod, Alcebax Metals (P) Ltd v. CCF, (1997) 11 SCC 613 (614). [Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944, Item 26A(1)]
To prevent, esp. by legal objection; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Means the profession and occupation of lawyer, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 44.
Means the railing in a court room that enclose the area around the judge where prisoners are stationed in criminal cases or where the business of the Court is transacted in civil cases, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 44.
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