Blank Bar
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In pleading. The old name of a plea in bar, put in in an action of trespass, to oblige the plaintiff to assign the certain place where the trespass was committed; otherwise called common bar.
Cro. Jac. 594. Blount.
It was chiefly used by the practisers in the Common Bench. Id.