Ban

sasc., eng., fr. In old European law. A military standard; a banner. A summoning to a standard; a calling out of a military force; the force itself so summoned: a national army levied by proclamation. A public proclamation or notice of any kind. A proclamation, edict or sentence of interdiction or proscription; a declaration of outlawry; a sentence of excommunication; a denunciation or curse. An expanse; an extent of space or territory; a space inclosed within certain limits; the limits or bounds themselves. A privileged space or territory around a town, monastery or other place, v. Banns. In feudal law. A space within which certain privileges might be exclusively exercised and certain dues exacted; as, at mills or ovens, where the lord might exact what in England was called suit at oven, or suit at mill.