Side-Bar Rules

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

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. As to side-bar applications, see Mitchell, Rules 20. SIDESMEN ( testes, synod ales). 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 officers 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, Eccl. Law 399.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In English practice. There are some rules which the courts authorize their officers to grant as a matter of course without formal application being made to them in open court, and these are technically termed "side-bar rules," because formerly they were moved for by the attorneys at the side bar in court; such, for instance, was the rule to plead, which was an order or command of the court requiring a defendant to plead within a specified number of days. Such also were the rules to reply, to rejoin, and many others, the granting of which depended upon settled rules of practice rather than upon the discretion of the courts, all of which are rendered unnecessary by recent statutory changes. Brown, voc. "Rule,"