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venire


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}. 




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