A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment. / A tribunal or court.

(US, business) Used to associate a non-banking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank

Alternative form of en banc

plural of banc

A surname.

(law) As a group, particularly with respect to a legal decision rendered by all of the judges sitting on a court, rather than by a smaller panel of judges from that court.

plural of court in banc

(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.

Obsolete form of charabanc.

plural of char-à-banc