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BAR
practice. A place in a court where the counsellors and advocates
stand to make their addresses to the court and jury, it is so called
because formerly it was closed with a bar. Figuratively the counsellors and
attorneys at law are called the bar of Philadelphia, the New York bar.
2. A place in a court having criminal jurisdiction, to which prisoners
are called to plead to the indictment, is also called, the bar. Vide Merl.
Repert. mot Barreau, and Dupin, Profession dAvocat, tom. i. p. 451, for
some eloquent advice to gentlemen of the bar.
Source: Bouviers Law Dictionary 1856 Edition
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