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n.A person who is being tried for a crime.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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prisoner at the bar — An accused person, while on trial before the court, is so called. One accused of crime, who is actually on trial, is in legal effect a prisoner at the bar, notwithstanding he has given bond for his appearance at the trial. He is a prisoner if… … Black's law dictionary
bar — The court, in its strictest sense, sitting in full term. The presence, actual or constructive, of the court. Thus a trial at bar is one had before the full court, distinguished from a trial had before a single judge at nisi prius. So the case at… … Black's law dictionary
bar — The court, in its strictest sense, sitting in full term. The presence, actual or constructive, of the court. Thus a trial at bar is one had before the full court, distinguished from a trial had before a single judge at nisi prius. So the case at… … Black's law dictionary
Prisoner — Pris on*er, n. [F. prisonnier.] 1. One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster] 2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Prisoner's base — Prisoner Pris on*er, n. [F. prisonnier.] 1. One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster] 2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
bar — I n. counter or place where drinks are sold 1) to manage, operate, run a bar 2) to stop at a bar (on the way home); to drink at the bar; to drop into a bar 3) a cash (AE); cocktail; coffee (BE); gay; open ( free ); public (BE); salad; saloon… … Combinatory dictionary
bar — [12] The history of bar cannot be traced back very far. Forms in various Romance languages, such as French barre (source of the English verb) and Italian and Spanish barra, point to a Vulgar Latin *barra, but beyond that nothing is known. The… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
bar — [12] The history of bar cannot be traced back very far. Forms in various Romance languages, such as French barre (source of the English verb) and Italian and Spanish barra, point to a Vulgar Latin *barra, but beyond that nothing is known. The… … Word origins
prisoner — n. 1 a person kept in prison. 2 (in full prisoner at the bar) a person in custody on a criminal charge and on trial. 3 a person or thing confined by illness, another s grasp, etc. 4 (in full prisoner of war) a person who has been captured in war … Useful english dictionary
prisoner — Used to a prisoner in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and possibly in modern times to those held in custody. Nurse is a Neighbour, by Joanna Jones, quotes ‘Prisoner at the bar’, a phrase associated with old fashioned court room dramas. In… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
