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1. = next 1.
1665. Ever, Tryals per Pais, iii. 31. Therefore where the Sheriff ought not to retorn the Venire, he cannot retorn the Tales.
1676. Office Clerk of Assize, 82. In the mean time doth the Clerk of the Peace file the Venire, and the pannel with the Indictment.
1722. Beverley, Hist. Virginia, IV. vi. 223. A Writ of Venire issues in such cases, to summon six of the nearest Neighbours to the Criminal.
1771. E. Long, in Hone, Every-day Bk. (1826), II. 200. You must have a venire for a jury.
1821. Archbold, Digest Law Pleading & Evidence, 415. Stating the names, &c. of the knights and recognitors, as in the venire.
1825. Act 6 Geo. IV., c. 50 § 16, marg. If Plaintiff sue forth a Venire, etc. in order to Trial, and proceed not, he may afterwards sue forth another Venire, etc. and try at any subsequent Assizes.
b. Venire de novo, = next 1 b.
1797. Tomlins, Jacob’s Law Dict., s.v. Venire Facias de novo, The following seem to be the cases in which a Venire de Novo is grantable.
1885. Law Rep., 10 App. Cas. 414. Without some such power [of ascertaining what the circumstances were] no judgment, except a venire de novo, could be given.
c. Venire man, one summoned to serve on a jury under a writ of Venire facias, a juryman. U.S.
1780. Virginia Statutes at Large, X. 489. An act for regulating tobacco fees, and fixing the allowance to sheriffs, witnesses, and venire-men.
1895. Weekly Examiner (San Francisco), 5 Sept., 2/1. Sheriff Whelan’s deputies had apparently summoned most all of the veniremen from the foreign sections of the city.
† 2. = next 2. Obs.
1763. Ld. Hardwicke, in Harris, Life (1847), III. 344. I believe he came in upon the venire or capias, & put in bail.
1769. [see VENIRE FACIAS 2].
† 3. The place from which the jurors were to be summoned or in which the cause was to be tried; = VENUE 5. Obs.
1682. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), I. 185. Mr. Graham haveing moved once or twice the court of kings bench that the venire might be laid in another county.
1682. Lond. Gaz., No. 1720/7. This day the great Case between the Earl of Shaftsbury and Mr. Cradock came on in the Kings-Bench about changing the Venire out of London.
