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venire

 
Dictionary: ve·ni·re   (və-nī'rē, -nîr'ē) pronunciation

n.
  1. A writ issued by a judge to a sheriff directing the summons of prospective jurors. Also called venire facias.
  2. The panel of prospective jurors from which a jury is selected.

[Short for Middle English venire facias, from Medieval Latin venīre (faciās), (you should cause) to come, a phrase used in the writ, from Latin.]


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i>-Lat: to come; refers to the common law process by which jurors are summoned to try a case. 46 A. 2d 921, 923.

venire de novo (d¯a n¯o9-v¯o) to come anew; refers to the summoning of a second jury for the purpose of proceeding to a second trial. Such a second trial is awarded where a verdict [by the jury] or finding [by the court] "is so defective, uncertain, or ambiguous upon its face that no judgment can be rendered upon it." 41 N.E. 383, 386. At early common law, the writ of venire de novo (or venire facias de novo, which was the more proper term), issued only in response to a jury's verdict, id., and only where the defect appeared on the face of the record rather than at some place extrinsic to it, 27 N.E. 448; but these technical limitations have been incorporated into the more modern procedure of granting a new trial, which serves the purpose of the old venire de novo. See, e.g., Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 59. The term, when used, generally denotes a new trial. See 171 N.E. 585.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
  Synonym: panel


 
 

 

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