单词 | lay the venue |
释义 | > as lemmasto lay the venue b. To place or locate (a scene). †Also, to assign to a specified locality. to lay the venue: see the noun. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [verb (transitive)] > assign or attribute to particular place lay1576 locate1781 localize1797 place1885 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 171 The booke of Domesday speaking of Apuldore, laieth it in the hundreth of Blackburne. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet Prol. 2 In faire Verona, where we lay our Scene. View more context for this quotation 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 145 Other Geographers..lay it as a dependant annexed to Affrick. 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 50 The Scene of it [sc. The Silent Woman] is laid in London. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 697 I never framed a wish or formed a plan..But there I laid the scene. 1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) ii. 34 In the legend of the birth of Eurustheus, the scene is laid in Ἄργος Ἀχαϊκόν. to lay (also fix or place) the venue a. Law. The county, district, or locality where an action is laid; the place where a jury is summoned to come for the trial of a case. Frequently in the phrase to lay (also fix or place) the venue. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > place where trial is held or jury summoned venue1531 visne1641 venire1682 1531 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 190 The venewe most nedes be of Stevenage aforsed. 1531 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 194 The layng of the venew or issue at Stevenege..to have an indefferent Jury. 1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 6 §3 Within the saide hundred where the venewe lieth. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 260 Venew or Visne is a terme used..often in our bookes, and signifies a place next to that where any thing that comes to be tryed is supposed to bee done. And therefore..some of the Jury must be of the same hundred, or sometimes of the same parish in which the thing is supposed to be done. 1664–5 Act 16 & 17 Chas. II c. 8 §1 The Plaintiffe might have demurred and shewen the same for Cause, nor for want of the Averment..or for that there is noe right Venue. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Thus we say, Twelve of the Assize ought to be of the same Venew where the Demand is made. 1796 J. Anstey Pleader's Guide i. 4 For Bards and Lawyers both with ease May place the Venue where they please. 1826 S. Smith Lett. Electors Catholic Quest. in Wks. (1859) II. 227/1 The venue of several crimes imputed to the prisoner is laid in countries to which the jurisdiction of this court does not extend. 1838 R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Exchequer II. 23 The Attorney-General may lay the venue where he pleases. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 350 The plaintiff laid the venue in Warwickshire. < as lemmas |
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