Bane
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In old English law
A public denunciation of a malefactor; the same with what was called hutesium, hue and cry.
Spelman.
See Hutesium. Bract. fol.
116.
According to Cowell, who cites the same passage from Bracton, it signified the destruction or overthrow of anything, as he who was the cause of another's death was said to be le bane; a malefactor.