Raster

[L, Lat. barrasterius, from barra, a bar, q. v.] In English practice. One who appears at the bar of a court, in discharge of his duty as an advocate; one called to the bar {ad barram); a pleader at the bar, counsellor, or advocate; the lower of the two degrees of counsel in the English courts.* Barristers were at first styled apprentices at law {apprenticii ad legem), or apprentices at the bars, {apprentidiad barras), answering to the degree of bachelor in the universities. They seem to have been first appointed by an ordinance of King Edward 1., in parliament, in the 20th year of his reign. Spelman, voc. Apprenticii. Dugdale Orig. Jur. 55. 1 Bl. Com. 23, note. 3 Id. 27. 3 Steph. Com. 385. See Apprenticius ad legem. The great body of barristers are ca Jled, especially m the older books, utter or outer barristers, because they sit Mid plead without {ouster) the bar; as distmguished from those who have privilege to sit within the bar. See Bar.