Plea in bar
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In practice
A plea which goes to bar the plaintiff's action; that is, to defeat it absolutely and entirely.
1 Burrill, Pr. 162; 3 BI. Comm. 303; Rawson v. Knight, 71 Me. 102; Norton v. Winter, 1 Or. 48, 62 Am. Dec. 297; Wilson v. Knox Co.unty, 132 Mo. 387, 34 S. W. 45.