court in banc

English

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Noun

court in banc (plural courts in banc)

  1. (law) The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for court in banc in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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