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Bannum

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A ban. (g. v.) lamation, made by the voice of a herald forbidding all present at the trial by combat to interfere, either by motion or word, whatever they might see or hear. Bracton, fol.

142; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 84, § 1.

The bans of marriage. Fleta, lib.

5, c.