Ban
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Banns. A proclamation; edict; the announcement in church of a proposed marriage. The spiritual judge might dispense with these by giving a marriage license; but a marriage without either banns or hcense was void and a penal offence.