Venire

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Venire facias \Ve*ni"re fa"ci*as\ [L., make, or cause, to come.]
     (Law)
     (a) A judicial writ or precept directed to the sheriff,
         requiring him to cause a certain number of qualified
         persons to appear in court at a specified time, to serve
         as jurors in said court.


     (b) A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party
         indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also
         {venire}.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  venire
       n : (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom
           a jury will be chosen) [syn: {panel}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "venire":
     blue-ribbon jury, certiorari, citation, country, garnishment,
     grand jury, habeas corpus, hung jury, impanelment, inquest, jury,
     jury list, jury of inquest, jury of matrons, jury panel,
     jury selection, monition, panel, petit jury, police jury, sessions,
     special jury, subpoena, summons, trial jury, venire de novo,
     venire facias, writ of summons
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  VENIRE, OR VENIRE PACIAS JURATORES, practice. The name of a writ directed to 
  the sheriff commanding him to cause to come from the body of the county 
  before the court from which it issued, on some day certain and therein 
  specified, a certain number of qualified citizens who are to act as jurors 
  in the said court. Steph. Pl. 104; 2 Graydon's Forms, 314; and see 6 Serg. & 
  Rawle, 414; 21 Vin. Ab. 291; Com. Dig. Enquest, C 1, &c.; Id. Pleader, 2 S 
  12, 3 0 20; Id. Process, D 8; 3 Chit. Pr. 797.