vicinage

One must first determine which judge is assigned to emergent duty for the vicinage.

He had formed no conscious plan, but desired to reconnoiter the vicinage.

Before the adoption of the federal Constitution, only two state constitutions provided an explicit vicinage right.

The Vicinage Clause places no limits on the prosecution of crimes not committed within a state.

It was objected yesterday, that there was no provision for a jury from the vicinage.

Thus only might a man uphold his reputation for bravery in the vicinage of Grand Avenue.

Outside the Skradin vicinage, there go naught but rumors.

I like solitude so much that I cannot even endure the vicinage of other beings sleeping under the same roof.

Areas of clear glass surrounded the head of the bullet, permitting the passenger a full view of his outer vicinage.

How there we sped, Gardingo's vicinage can best declare."

The school is located on the former site of Vicinage Park, just north of Belfast city centre.

The same resolution referred to the "inestimable Privilege of being tried by a Jury from the Vicinage."

One major exception is Ordination, where even congregationalist churches often invite members of the vicinage or association to ordain their called pastor.

The Vicinage Clause limits the geography of criminal jury selection to both the state and federal judicial district where a crime is committed.

The Judiciary Act of 1789 eventually included a conditional vicinage clause as an exception to a general venue clause.

Kalt also notes that the Vicinage Clause would not protect against civil liability or vigilante justice.

According to Blackstone, in medieval England, the "vicinage of the jury" referred to a jury drawn from the relevant county.

The Senate suppose, also, that the provision for vicinage in the Judiciary bill will sufficiently quiet the fears which called for an amendment on this point.

It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only sound audible in its vicinage.

The General Equity, Family, Civil and Criminal Parts in each vicinage are headed by a presiding judge.

It was widely thought, among the people of that vicinage, that his departure had been prompted by a salutary fear of ecclesiastical thumbscrews and faggots.

In June 2008 he was appointed Acting Assignment Judge for the Morris/Sussex Vicinage.

James Madison explained the omission of a vicinage clause in the Virginia Ratifying Convention as follows:

This was not the first of Mr. Doarty's nocturnal visits to the vicinage of Farris's.

Richard Henry Lee (A-VA) argued that "vicinage" was better, "it being a term well understood by every gentleman of legal knowledge."