1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
VENUE (derived through the French, from Lat. venire, to come), in English law the term denoting the place from which a jury must come for the trial of a case. The word occurs early in constitutional documents, for it was for a long time one of the essentials of trial by jury that the jury should belong to the neighbourhood (vicinetum, visne) in which the cause of action arose or the alleged crime was committed (see JURY). This was founded on the idea that the jurors were in the nature of witnesses for or against th…
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