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noun
Venue  n.  
1.
(Law) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid. "The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made." Note: In certain cases, the court has power to change the venue, which is to direct the trial to be had in a different county from that where the venue is laid.
2.
A bout; a hit; a turn. See Venew. (R.)
To lay a venue (Law), to allege a place.





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"Venue" Quotes from Famous Books



... necessite, Non tant seulement d'equite, Nous fait de Dieu sept choses croire: C'est sa doulce nativite, Son baptesme d'humilite, Et sa mort, digne de memoire: Son descens en la chartre noire, Et sa resurrection, voire; S'ascencion d'auctorite, La venue judicatoire, Ou ly bons seront mis en gloire, Et ly mals ...
— Val d'Arno • John Ruskin
... evening dress? Still more important than this was the Jubilee dinner held on July 19th, 1891, just five-and-twenty years after the Burnham Beeches picnic—in honour of Mr. Punch's hundredth volume. The "Ship" at Greenwich was the place of venue. With Mr. Burnand in the chair, the members of the Staff seated as represented in Mr. Sambourne's well-known drawing of "The Mahogany Tree," with Mr. W. H. Bradbury and Sir William Agnew at one end of the table, with ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
... in which both Universities were to take part. The stakes were worth winning—twenty sovs. entrance, h.f., and a hundred sovs. added; besides, the esprit de corps was strong, and men backed their opinions pretty freely. The venue was fixed at B——; the time, the beginning ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence
... de l'anglais de Toland; c'est l'Examen des prophties; c'est la Vie de David ou de l'homme selon l coeur de Dieu, ce sont mlle diables dchains.—Ah! Madame de Blacy, je crains bien que le Fils de l'Homme ne soit la porte; que la venue d'Elie ne soit proche, et que nous ne touchions au rgne de l'Anti-christ. Tous les jours, quand je me lve, je regarde par ma fentre, si la grande prostitue de Babylone ne se promne point dj dans les rues avec sa grande coupe ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing


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