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adj
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from French en banc (literally “on a bench”).
Across languages
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