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In Old English and Civil Law. A proclamation; a public notice; the announcement of an intended marriage. Cowell. An excommunication; a curse, publicly pronounced; proclamation of silence made by a crier in court before the meeting of champions in combat. Cowell. A statute, edict, or command; a fine, or penalty. An open field; the outskirts of a village; a territory endowed with certain privileges. A summons, as, arriere ban. Spelman. — ^In French Law. The right of announcing the time of mowing, reaping, and gathering the vintage, exercised by certain eeignorial lords. Guyot, Rep. Univ.

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 of champions in combat. Cowell. A statute, edict, or command; a fine, or penalty. An open field; tbe outskirts of a village; a territory endowed with certain privileges. A summons; as arricre ban. Spelman, Gloss. In French Law. The right of announcing the time of moving, reaping, and gathering the vintage, exercised by certain seignorial lords. Guyot, Rep. Univ.

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In old English and civil law. A proclamation; a public notice; the announcement of an intended marriage. Cowell. An excommunication; a ctirse, publicly pronounced. A proclamation of silence made by a crier in court before the meeting of champions in combat Id. A statute, edict or command; a fine or penalty.
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In French law. The right of announcing the time of mowing, reaping, and gathering the vintage, exercised by certain seignorial lords. Guyot, Repert Univ.
3. An expanse; an extent of space or territory; a space inclosed within cortuin limits; the limits or bounds themselves. Spelman.
4. A privileged spaco or territory around a town, monastery, or othor place.
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In old European law. A military standard; a thing uhfurled, a banner. Spelman. A summoning to a standard; a calling out of a mllitary force; the force itself so summoned; a national army levied by proclamation.

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In old European law. A military standard; a banner. A summoning to a standard; a calling out of a military force; the force itself so summoned: a national army levied by proclamation. A public proclamation or notice of any kind. A proclamation, edict or sentence of interdiction or proscription; a declaration of outlawry; a sentence of excommunication; a denunciation or curse. An expanse; an extent of space or territory; a space inclosed within certain limits; the limits or bounds themselves. A privileged space or territory around a town, monastery or other place, v. Banns.

In feudal law. A space within which certain privileges might be exclusively exercised and certain dues exacted; as, at mills or ovens, where the lord might exact what in England was called suit at oven, or suit at mill.

1. In old English and civillaw. A proclamation; a public notice; the an. pronounced. A proclamation of silence made by a erier in court before the meeting of chimpionsincombat. Id. Astatute, 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 seignorial lords. Guyot, Repert. Univ. 8. An expanse; an extent of space or territory; a space inclosed within certain limifs; the limits or bounds themselves. Spelman. 4, A privileged space or territory around a town, monastery, or other place. 5. In old Huropean law. <A military standard; athing unfurled,a banner. Spelman, A summoning to a standard; a calling out of a military force; the force itself 80 summoned; 8 national army levied by proclamation.

Banns. A proclamation; edict; the announcement in church of a proposed marriage. The spiritual judge might dispense with these by giving a marriage license; but a marriage without either banns or hcense was void and a penal offence.

Bann: pl. Banns. [L. Lat. bannus, bannum; pl. banni, banna.] In old law. A proclamation or public notice. Any public summons or edict, whereby a thing is commanded or forbidden; a sentence of excommunication, publicly proclaimed; a declaration of outlawry; a denunciation or curse. Cowell. Blount. Tomlins. See Bannus, Bannum, Banns. A national army levied by proclamation. See Arriereban, Heribannum.