Banalités or banalities (; from ban) were, until the end of the Ancien Régime in various parts of Europe, rights linked to the exercise of lordship or public authority that imposed the compulsory use of designated facilities. The institution is most extensively documented in France, but comparable forms existed elsewhere in Europe under different legal traditions and terminology.
Banalités or banalities (; from ban) were, until the end of the Ancien Régime in various parts of Europe, rights linked to the exercise of lordship or public authority that imposed the compulsory use of designated facilities. The institution is most extensively documented in France, but comparable forms existed elsewhere in Europe under different legal traditions and terminology.
== France == Banalités in France were restrictions in feudal tenure by which peasants were obliged to use certain facilities owned or controlled by their manorial lord. These typically included the required, fee-based use of the lord’s mill to grind grain, his wine press to make wine, and his oven to bake bread. Both the lord’s right to impose such obligations and the dues paid by the users were known as the . The installations themselves were described as banal, for example the four banal or taureau banal.
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