Etymology

en banc

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

French en banc
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  1. French · borrowed fromen banc
  2. English todayen banc

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.