VENUE

(Norm. Fr. Vtsne; I>at. \H\nclum, neighbourhood.)InL iw. By the original institution of trial By jury, re summoned from the immediate neighbourhood where a fact happened, to try it by their own knowledge. Besce, Ion;.' alter the institution had been altered in character, Juries were still.siiuiiiioncd in point ot' form from the illage, , until by 4 Ann., c. 16, they became suinuionable as they still are, from the body of the county. The venue, therefore, was the neighbourhood named in the venue facias, or writ summoning the jury; and the last relics of the old practice, in criminal proceedings, were abolished by 5 G. 4, C 50. (See Jury.) The venue, thereto]e, is the county in which the action is to be tried, which. d in all material allegations in the pleadings; and it need not be the county in which the fact took place except in what ure called local actions. See Pleadi.no. [s. 1313]