Banality
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
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, R6p.
Univ. It prevents the erection of a mill within the seignorial limits; 1 Low. C. 31; whether steam or water; 3 Low. C. 1. BANC (Fr. bench). The seat of judgment; as, banc le roy, the king's bench; lane le common pleas, the bench of common pleas. The meeting of all the judges, or such as may form a quorum, as distinguished from sittings at Nisi Prim: as, "the court sit in banc."
Cowell.