en banc

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. 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.
adj
  1. 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.

Word forms

en banc in banc

Etymology

Borrowed from French en banc (literally “on a bench”).

Derived words

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