Banneret
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or BANE RET. One knighted on the field. So called, according to Wharton, from the formula of cutting off the point of his standard, so as to make it a banner. BANNI NUPTIARUM (Law Lat.) In old English law. The bans of matrimony. Spelman; Cowell. Bracton uses the singular, bannum. Bracton, fol.
307b.
Fleta uses bannus. Fleta, lib.
5, c. 30, § 3.
See "Bannum;" "Bannus."