Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VENIRE-FACIAS, or VENIRE
VENIRE-FACIAS, or VENIRE, n. [Venire facias, or venire.]
In law, a writ or precept directed to the sherif, requiring him to summon twelve men, to try an issue between parties. It is also a writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute, to appear.
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