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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
Bank, Bancus, I. A bench; the fuU bench; the fuU court, as distinguished from the sitting of a single judge at nisi prius. Communis Bancus, abb. C. B.: the Common Bench, the English Court of Common Pleas. Bancus Regis, abb.
B. R.: the King's Bench; v. Court, 8.
Banci narratores: sergeants at law who enjoyed the monopoly of practice in the C. B.