Ban
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In Old English and Civil Law. A proclamation; a public notice; the announcement of an intended marriage.
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An excommunication; a curse, publicly pronounced. A proclamation of silence made by a crier in court before the meeting of champions in combat.
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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.