BAN

A word bearing a variety of signifies! nis in the Teutonic jurisprudence and usages, bul all apparently connected wih the Original meaning ol "to proclaim, or give public notice.'1 Hence, l. Ban, the proclamation against an outlaw: e. g. the ban of the German Empire, equivalent to ecclesiastical excommunication or declaration of outlawry; whence the words banish, bandits, banditti, and to " ban" or curse; in German bannen, verbannen. 2 The ban, in the sense of the national army of a Teutonic fieople levied by proclamation: hence the French "lever a ban el rsxriere ban" (the latter word being a corruption of her i/iannum, from heer, an army). Tin French ban and arrifere ban was levied for the last time in HJ?2, and commandedbyTurenne, but behaved so ill (hat this feudal armament was thenceforth discontinued. 3. The banns of marriage. beiiiL' notice given by public proclamation to the parish of the intended solemnization. In the Sclavonic tongues ban means master: the lords of some of the frontier provinces of Turkey were so styled; hence the bannat or lordship of Temeswar. now belonging to Austria. [s. 135]