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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Side-bar, n. Also: syde-. [Sid(e n. 10 and Bar n. 1. Cf. mod. Eng. side-bar (1795), ‘a former bar in Westminster Hall’ (OED).] A bar in the outer Parliament House in Edinburgh, at which the rolls of the Lords Ordinary were called. —1681 Stair Inst. iv i § 63.
The Ordinary … hath an hour at the side-bar weekly, till he dispatch all that he stopped in his week 1681 Stair Inst. iv lii § 20.
Other Ordinaries ought not to go to the side-bar, but on the proper days assigned to them 1683 Lauder Notices Affairs II 458.
The Lords enact that only 2 of them shall come to the syde-bar at once, because of the great confusion occasioned by ther frequenting theirof
