Legal Term: BAR

Definition: contracts. An obstacle or opposition. 2. Some bars arise from circumstances, and others from persons. Kindred within the prohibited degree, for example, is a bar to a marriage between the persons related, but the fact that A is married, and cannot therefore marry B, is a circumstance which operates as a bar as long as it subsists, for without it the parties might marry.

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