banco

[In Dan. banco = a bank; Sp. banco bench, bank; Ital. banco = a bench, a shop counter; metter banco = to be a banker.) [BANK.] I. Commerce: 1. A bank, especially that of Venice. 2. The difference between the price of money at a bank and its value outside. II. Law. Sittings in banco, or in bane: Sittings of a Superior Court of Common Law as a full court, as distinguished from the sittings of the judges at Nisi Prius , or on circuit. The judges sitting in banco wear a robe of the time of Henry IV., of dark purple and ermine, except on red-letter days, when it is of scarlet.