venue, venew (ew as u), venny, venny

[Fr. venue a coming, an arrival, a thrust in fencing; prop. fem. of venu, pa. par. of venir (Lat. venio ) = to come.] IMG:content-0452.png:[blocks in formation] II. Law : The place where an action is laid. In the United States, the county in which the trial of a particular cause takes place is said to be the venue of that trial. In local actions, as for damages for an actual trespa , or for waste, ., affect ing land, the plaintiff must lay his declaration, or declare his injury to have happened in the very county and place that it really did happen; but in transitory actions, for injuries that might have happered anywhere, as debt, detinue, slander, and the like, the plaintiff may declare in what county he pleases, and then the trial must be had in that county in which the declaration is laid. 1. To lay a venue : To allege or fix a place of trial. 2. To pray a change of venue : To petition that a cause may be tried before another judge or in another place than the one first selected. věn'-ūle, s. [Latin venuta, dim in. from vena =a vein.] *1. Ord. Lang.: A small vein. 2. Bot.: A veinlet (q. v.). *věn'-u-lite, s. [Mod. Lat. venus , and Gr. lithos a stone.] Palæont .: A fo il of, or akin to, the genus Venus (q.v.).