Banishment

A punishment inflicted upon criminals, by compelling them to quit a city, place, or country for a specified period of time, or for life.

See 4 Dall. (Pa.) 14.

It is to be distinguished from "transportation," which implies a confinement in some place beyond the realm. BANK (Anglicised form of bancus, a bench). The bench of justi'ce. A session in bank is one held by more than one judge of the court to determine matters of law. ^ Distinguished from nisi prius sittings t-o determine facts.

3 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 28, note.

Bank le roy, the king's bench.

Finch, Law, 198.

In Commercial Law. A place for the deposit of money. An institution, generally incorporated, authorized to receive deposits of money, to lend money, and to issue promissory notes. — usually known by the name of "bank notes," — or to perform some one or more of these functions. Banks are said to be of three kinds, viz., of deposit, of discount, and of circulation; They generally perform all these operations, but an institution performing but one is a bank. 17 Wall. (U. S.) 118; but see 52 Cal. 196. A corporation loaning its own funds on note and mortgage is not a bank.

5 Sawy. (U. S.) 32.

It was the custom of the early money changers to transact their business in public places, at the doors of churches, at markets, and, among the Jews, in the temple (Mark xi. 15). They used tables or benches for their convenience in counting and assorting their coins. The table so used was called banche, and the traders themselves, "bankers," or "'benchers." In times still more ancient, their benches were called cambii, and they themselves were called cambiators. Du Cange, "Cambii."