Ban
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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; 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; 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.