Note 31 — BOOK XV.
William Robson translation
Louis makes use of the expression: “Je vous dis le ban,” &c. which word cannot be used in this sense in English, but is very effective in French, and was employed in many legal proclamations connected with royal or seignorial rights,—as, for instance: ban is a proclamation by which all who held lands of the crown of France were summoned to serve the king in his wars.—Trans.