BAN

1. In old English and civil law. A proclamation; a public notice; the announcement of an intended marriage. Cowell. An excommunication; a curse, publicly pronounced. A proclamation of silence made by a crier In court before the meeting ot champions In combat. Id. A statute, edict, or command; a fine, or penalty. 2. In French law, The right of announcing the time ot mowing; reaping, and gathering the vintage, exercised by certatn seignorial lords. Guyot, Repert. Univ. 3. An expanse; an extent of space or territory; a space inclosed within certain limits; the limits or bounds themselves. Spelman. 4. A privileged space or territory around a town, monastery, or other place. 5. In old European law, A military standard; a thing unfurled, a banner. Spelman. A summpning to a standard; a calling out of a I)lilitary force; the force itself so summoned; a national army levied by proclamation. [s. 122]