| 释义 |
visne Law or Hist.|ˈviːnɪ|
Also 5 visnee, 6 vysne.
[a. AF. and OF. visné (earlier visnet: see next), f. vesin, visin, veisin (F. voisin):—L. vicīn-us neighbour: see vicine a.]
1. A neighbourhood or vicinage, esp. as the area from which a jury is summoned.
1449Rolls of Parlt. V. 150/1 Triable by Enquest, in the same Shire and Visne where the said action shall be taken. 1464Ibid. 565/2 Of the visnee where the seid seyser shall be had. 1531Dial. on Laws Eng. i. vii. 15 All yssues..muste be tryed by .xii. fre & lawful men of the vysne. 1620J. Wilkinson Coroners & Sherifes 3 A Coroner hath a fee belonging to his office viz. of every visne 1 d. 1625Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 411 In euery suit betweene an Alien and a Demesne..the one halfe of the Iurie shall be the Aliens, if so many be in that visne. 1651tr. Kitchin's Jurisdictions (1657) 574 The sherif returns a Jury of the Visne of D., and the new sherif returns no such visne. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. xxvii. 344 The sheriff of the county must return a panel of jurors.., without just exception, and of the visne or neighbourhood. 1832Index of Rolls of Parlt. 952/1 The Inquest taken by Men of the Visne of the County where the Plaintiffs were born. 1867Smyth Sailor's Wordbk. 714 Visne, a neighbouring place; a term often used in law in actions of marine replevin.
2. A jury summoned from the neighbourhood in which the cause of action lies.
1633Sir J. Borough Sov. Brit. Seas (1651) 103 Replevin was brought of a Ship taken upon the wast of Scarborough..to which Mutford tooke two exceptions, one because no certaine Towne, or place was named from whence the visne should come. 1832Sir F. Palgrave Eng. Commw. ii. 156 It did not occur to the Vehmic Judges to put the offender upon his second trial by the visne, which now forms the distinguishing characteristic of the English law. 1863H. Cox Instit. ii. iii. 347 note, If the visne appeared on the record to be from a wrong place, it was a good ground for arresting or reversing the judgment.
†3. = venue 5. Obs. rare.
1641[see venue 5]. 1665Ever Tryals per Pais viii. 85 Where the Visne is laid to be in a City, in an Action brought in a superior Court [etc.]. 1768[see venue 5 b]. |