The area in front or near the judge which is away from the witness stand and the jury box where counsel can approach the bench to discuss or argue a matter with the judge that is not heard by the witness or the jury. An off the record, confidential conversation between the attorneys and the judge. … [Read more...]

Lat. In Scotch practice. So it is subscribed. Formal words at the end of depositions, immediately preceding the signature. 1 How. State Tr. 1379. Sie ntere tno nt aliennm non lsedas. Use your own property in such a manner as not to injure that of another. 9 Coke, 59; 1 BL Comm. 306; Broom, Max. 365. … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

Latin, meaning So use your own as not to injure another s property. … [Read more...]

In ecclesiastical law. These were originally persons whom, in the ancient episcopal synods, the bishops were wont to summon out of each parish to give information of the disorders of the clergy and people, and to report heretics. In process of time they became standing officers, under the title of "synodsmen," "sidesmen," or "questmen." The whole of their duties seems now to … [Read more...]