Banality
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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, Rep. Univ. It prevents the erection of a mill within the seignorial limits (1 Low. [U. S.] 31), whether steam or water (3 Low. [U. S.] 1). BANC (Ft. bench). The seat of judgment; as, banc le roy, the king's bench; bance le common pleas, the bench of common pleas; the full bench.