BANE

A malefactor. Bract. 1. 1, t. 8, c. 1. Also a public denunciation of a malefactor; the same with what was called "hutesium," hue and cry. Spelman. In En- BANERET, or BANNERET. glish law. A knight made in the field, by the ceremony of cutting off the point of his stand- ard, and making it, as it were, a banner. Knights so made are accounted so honorable G that they are allowed to display their arms H in the royal army, as barons do, and may bear arms with supporters. They rank next to barons; and were sometimes called "vex- illarii." Wharton.

A malefactor. Bracton, 1. 1, t. 8, с. 1.

In old English law. A public denunciation of a malefactor; the same with what was called hutesium, hue and cry. Spelman. See Hutesium. Bract. fol. 116. According to Cowell, who cites the same passage from Bracton, it signified the destruction or overthrow of any thing, as he who was the cause of another's death was said to be le bane; a malefactor. A felo de se was called by the Saxons self bana. Blount. BANERETTUS, Miles Banerettus, Benerettus. L. Lat. In old English law. A banneret or knight banneret. Spelman. See Banneret. BANK, Banke, Bancke, Banque, Banky, Baunc. L. Fr. In old English law. Bench; the Bench. The name formerly given in French to the two superior common law courts in England. Bank, (banke, or banque) le Roy; the King's Bench. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 45. Le Commune Bank; the Common Bench. Reg. Orig. 198 b, nota. The latter court was also called Bank a Westmynstre; the Bench at Westminster. Britt. c. 90. Stat. Westm. 1, e. 45. Justices du Banke; justices of the Bench (that is, the Common Bench.) Stat. Gloc. c. 12. 1 And. 31. Les justices de son Banke; the justices of his Bench, (that is, the King's Bench.) Artic. sup Chart. c. 5. En ce Bank; in this Bench. Yearb. M. 3 Hen. VI. 2. The name was origiBANK, Banc. [L. Lat. bancus.] In practice. The regular term of a court of law, as distinguished from a sittings at nisi prius. The ancient phrase in banco, sometimes translated in bank or banc, once exclusively used to denote the sittings of the English Court of Common Bench, is now constantly applied to any superior court of law, to denote the full court sitting at its regular law terms for the hearing of arguments, and is thus distinguished from a sittings at nisi prius, or a circuit court held by one of the judges for the trial of causes before a jury. Days in bank (dies in banco,) are certain days in term appointed by the court or by statute, for the return of process, and the appearance of parties. See Days in bank. The day in bank was always distinguished from the day at nisi prius, or in the country, (in patria) as it was termed; that is, the day of trial. Ita quod certus dies detur in banco, et certi dies et locus dentur in patria; so that a certain day be given in bank, and a certain day and place be given in the country. Reg. Orig. 186. A

That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. [Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane, henbane, etc.] Destruction; death. [Obs.] The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. Herbert. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

To be the bane of; to ruin. [Obs.] Fuller.

To physically injure (someone or something); to harm, to hurt. | To cause (someone) misery or ruin; to socially or spiritually injure (someone). | To cause (sheep) a disease, especially the rot (“a disease in which breakdown of tissue occurs”). | To kill (a person or animal), especially by poison.

A surname.

A cause of misery or ruin. | Chiefly in the names of poisonous plants or substances: a poison. | Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm. | A disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot. | A person or thing that causes death or destruction; a killer, a murderer, a slayer. | Death; destruction; (countable) an instance of this.