Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Neighborhood. See
venae , 2 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) Neighborhood; vicinity; venue. See
venue .
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- noun law
neighborhood ;vicinity ;venue
Etymologies
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Old French visné, veisiné, visnet, neighborhood, Latin vicinatus, from Latin vicunus neighboring, a neighbor. See vicinity.
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Judges to put the offender upon his second trial by the visne, which now forms the distinguishing characteristic of the English law, and he was at once considered as condemned.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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