Bank
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
banke, bancke, banque, banky, bannc, fr. In old English laiv. Bench; the Bench. The name formerly given to the two superior common-law courts in England, the King's Bench and the Common Bench, though originally peculiar to the Common Bench, v. Baneus.