Banalités (French pronunciation: [banalite]; from ban) were, until the 18th century, restrictions in feudal tenure in France by an obligation to have peasants use the facilities of their lords.
Both the manorial lord's right to these dues and the banality-dues themselves are called droit de banalité.
The peasants could also be subjected to the banalité de tor et ver, meaning that only the lord had the right to own a bull or a boar.
The lord of the manor could also require a certain number of days each year of the peasants' forced labor.
[3] In France these monopolistic rights were abolished on the night of the 4th of August 1789 but feudal lords continued to be reimbursed until 1793.