BANCI JUS, or the privilege of having a bench, was anciently only allowed to the king's judges, qui summam administrant justitiam. Inferior courts, as courts-baron, hundred courts, &c. were not allowed that prerogative; and even at this day the hundred-court at Freibridge in Norfolk is held under an oak at Gey-wood; and that of Woolfry in Herefordshire, under an oak near Ashton in that county, called Hundred oak.