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Home Dictionary Name: venire faciasVenire facias de novo
Venire facias de novo, a second writ to summon another jury for a new trial.The venire de novo was the Old Common Law method of proceeding to a new trial, and differed materially from granting a new trial, inasmuch as it was awarded from some defect appearing upon the face of the record, while a new trial was granted for matter entirely extrinsic. Where a verdict could have been amended, a venire de novo was never awarded. If awarded, the party succeeding at the second trial was not entitled to the costs of the first. It has since been superseded by a trial de novo. The Court of Criminal Appeal can order a writ of venire de novo to issue, R. v. Crane, (1921) 2 AC 299, and R. v. Dennis, 40 TLR 420. See also NEW TRIAL....
venire facias
venire facias [Medieval Latin venire facias (juratores or juratam) may you cause (the jurors or the jury) to come (words used in the writ)] : a writ ordering a sheriff to summon a jury ...
Venire facias
Venire facias, a judicial writ awarded to the sheriff to summon a jury for the trial of a cause, but abolished by (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 104. It is the first process in outlawry, when a person charged with misdemeanour absconds, 4 Steph. Com....
Venire facias tot matronas
Venire facias tot matronas, a writ to summon a jury of matrons to execute the writ de ventre inspiciendo....
Nisi prius
Nisi prius, a Common Law phrase, which originated thus:An action was formerly triable only in the Court where it was brought. But it was provided by Magna Charta, in ease of the subject, that assizes of novel disseisin and mort-ancestor (which were the most common remedies of that day) should thenceforward instead of being tried at Westminster, in the superior Court, be taken in their proper counties, and for this purpose justices were to be sent into every county once a year to take these assizes there, 1 Reeves, 246. These local trials being convenient, were applied to other actions: for by the statute of Nisi Prius, 13 Edw. 1, st. 1, t. 30, as the general course of proceedings, writs of venire for summoning juries to the superior courts are in the following terms:-P'cipius tibi quod venire facias coram Justiciariis nostris apud Westm. In Octavis Sancti Michaelis Nisi talis et talis, tali die et loco, ad partes illas venerint duodecim, etc. Thus the trial was to be had at Westminster...
venireman
venireman pl: -men [venire (facias) + man] : venireperson ...
Jury process
Jury process, means (1) the procedure by which jurors are summoned and their attendance is enforced. (2) The papers served on or mailed to potential jurors to compel their attendance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 862.Jury process, the writ for the summoning of a jury. They were the distringas juratores, or habeas corpora juratorum, and the venire juratores facias, now abolished. A jury is summoned by precept. See 23 & 24 Vict. c. 77...
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