days in bank

days in bank. Particular days set aside by the Court of Common Pleas for specific matters, including the appearance of parties and service of process.

— Also termed dies in banco.

“There are in each of these terms stated days called days in bank, dies in banco; that is, days of appearance in the court of common pleas. They are generally at the distance of about a week from each other, and regulated by some festival of the church. On some one of these days in bank all original writs must be made returnable ….” 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 277 (1768).

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