0 a public announcement made in a church, especially in the UK, that two people are going to get married:
They were the revenue which the parishioners paid for the administration of the sacraments, for baptism, marriage and death certificates and for the banns.
If the banns have already been read and have gone unchallenged, the marriage is all the likelier to take place.
There is no power to bring that clergyman in for the purpose of proclaiming the banns if the doubt which the right rev.
The banns will have been called or notice given at the register office and it has been his honest intention to get married.
Then there are certain difficulties about the publication of banns.
It is accordingly thought that any extension of the power to proclaim banns to other religious bodies is attended with practically insuperable difficulties.
Take a further point, which refers to the publication of banns.
While the discussion there was on the question of extending that practice, there was general agreement that the publication of banns served no useful purpose.
