Sittings After Term

Sittings in banc after term were held by authority of St. 1 & 2 Vict. e. 32. The courts were at liberty to transact business at their sittings as in term time, but the custom was to dispose only of cases standing for argument or judgment. Wharton. SITTINGS IN BANK (or BANC). The sittings which the respective superior courts of common law hold during every term for the purpose of hearing and determining the various matters of law argued before them. They are so called in contradistinction to the sittings at nisi prius, which are held for the purpose of trying issues of fact. The former are usually held, in England, before four of the judges, while at the latter one judge only presides. Holthouse; 3 Steph. Comm. 423. In America, the practice is essentially the same, all the judges, or a majority ot them, usually, sitting in. banc, and but one holding the court for jury trials, and the term has the same application here as in England.

Sittings in bane after term were held by authority of the St. 1 & 2 Viet. c. 32. The courts were at liberty to transact business at their sittings as in term-time, but the custom was to dispose only of cases standing for argument or judgment. Wharton.

Defined under Sittings in Black's Law Dictionary.