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BAN
1. In old English and civil law. A proclamation; a public notice; the announcement of an intended marriage. Cowell. An excommunication; a curse, publicly pronounced. A proclamation of silence made by a crier in court before the meeting or champions in combat. Id. A statute, edict, or command; a fine, More...

1. In old English and civil law. A proclamation; a public notice; the announcement of an intended marriage. Cowell. An excommunication; a curse, publicly pronounced. A proclamation of silence made by a crier in court before the meeting or champions in combat. Id. A statute, edict, or command; a fine, or penalty. 2. In French law. The right of announcing the time of mowing, reaping, and gathering the vintage, exercised by certain selgnorial lords. Guyot, Repert Univ. 3. An expanse; an extent of space or territory; a space inclosed within certain limits; the limits or bounds themselves. Spelman. 4. A privileged space or territory around a town, monastery, or other place. 5. In old European law. A military standard; a thing unfurled, a banner. Spelman. A summoning to a standard; a calling out of a military force; the force itself so summoned; a national army levied by proclamation. Less...
BANAL
In Canadian and old French law. Pertaining to a ban or privileged place; having qualities or privileges derived from a ban. Thus, a banal mill is one to which the lord may require his tenant to carry his grain to be ground.

In Canadian and old French law. Pertaining to a ban or privileged place; having qualities or privileges derived from a ban. Thus, a banal mill is one to which the lord may require his tenant to carry his grain to be ground. Less...
BANALITY
In Canadian law. The right by virtue of which a lord subjects his vassals to grind at his mill, bake at his oven, etc. Used also of the region within which this right applied. Guyot, Repert. Univ.

In Canadian law. The right by virtue of which a lord subjects his vassals to grind at his mill, bake at his oven, etc. Used also of the region within which this right applied. Guyot, Repert. Univ. Less...
BANC
Bench; the seat of judgment; the place where a court permanently or regularly sits. The full bench, full court. A "sitting in banc" is a meeting of all the judges of a court, usually for the purpose of hearing arguments on demurrers, points reserved, motions for new trial, etc., as More...

Bench; the seat of judgment; the place where a court permanently or regularly sits. The full bench, full court. A "sitting in banc" is a meeting of all the judges of a court, usually for the purpose of hearing arguments on demurrers, points reserved, motions for new trial, etc., as distinguished from the sitting of a single judge at the assises or at nisi prius and from trials at bar. Less...
BANCI NARRATORES
In old English law. Advocates; countors; Serjeants. Applied to advocates in the common pleas courts. 1 Bl. Comm. 24; Cowell.

In old English law. Advocates; countors; Serjeants. Applied to advocates in the common pleas courts. 1 Bl. Comm. 24; Cowell. Less...
BANCO
Ital. See BANC. A seat or bench of justice; also. In commerce, a word of Italian origin signifying a bank.

Ital. See BANC. A seat or bench of justice; also. In commerce, a word of Italian origin signifying a bank. Less...
BANCUS
L. Lat In old English law and practice. A bench or seat in the king's hall or palace. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 16, § 1. A high seat, or seat of distinction; a seat of judgment, or tribunal for the administration of justice. The English court of common pleas was More...

L. Lat In old English law and practice. A bench or seat in the king's hall or palace. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 16, § 1. A high seat, or seat of distinction; a seat of judgment, or tribunal for the administration of justice. The English court of common pleas was formerly called "Bancus" A sitting in banc; the sittings of a court with its full judicial authority, or in full form, as distinguished from sittings at nisi prim. A stall, bench, table, or counter, on which goods were exposed for sale. Cowell. -Bancus reginse. The queen's bench. See QUEEN'S BENCH.-Bancus reals. The king's bench; the supreme tribunal of the king after parliament. 3 Bl. Comm. 41.-Bancus superior. The upper bench. The king's bench was so called during the Protectorate. Less...
BAND
In old Scotch law. A proclamation calling out a military force.

In old Scotch law. A proclamation calling out a military force. Less...
BANDIT
An outlaw; a man banned, or put under a ban; a brigand or robber. Banditti, a band of robbers.

An outlaw; a man banned, or put under a ban; a brigand or robber. Banditti, a band of robbers. Less...
BANE
A malefactor. Bract. 1. 1, t 8, c. 1. Also a public denunciation of a malefactor; the same with what was called "hutesium," hue and cry. Spelman.

A malefactor. Bract. 1. 1, t 8, c. 1. Also a public denunciation of a malefactor; the same with what was called "hutesium," hue and cry. Spelman. Less...

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