Side-Bar Rules
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English practice. Rules which were formerly moved for by attorneys on the side bar of the court, but now may be had of the clerk of the rules, upon a praecipe. These rules are, that the sheriff return his writ, that he bring in the body, for special imparlance, to be present at the taxing of costs, and the like. SIDELINGS (L. Lat.) In old records. TJnploughed pieces of land on the sides of fields. Meres or balks on the side of arable lands.
Cowell.
SIDESMEN (testes, synodales).
In ecclesiastical law
A kind of. impanelled jury, consisting of two, three, or more persons, in every parish, who were, upon oath, to present all heretics and irregular persons. In process of time they became standing ofijcers in many places, especially cities. They were called "synodsmen," — ^by corruption, "sidesmen;" also "questmen." But their office has become absorbed in that of church warden.
1 Burn, Ecc. Law, 399.