Vicinage

Word VICINAGE
Character 8
Hyphenation vic i nage
Pronunciations /ˈvɪsɪnɪdʒ/

Definitions and meanings of "Vicinage"

What do we mean by vicinage?

A limited region around a particular area; a vicinity. noun

A number of places situated near each other and considered as a group. noun

The residents of a particular neighborhood. noun

The state of living in a neighborhood; proximity. noun

The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity. noun

The condition of being a neighbor or of being neighborly. noun

The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity. noun

A surrounding district; a neighbourhood. noun

The people of a neighbourhood. noun

The state of living near something; proximity, closeness. noun

The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn. noun

A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.

The people of a neighbourhood.

The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.

The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.

A geographical division of the w:New Jersey Superior Court, covering one or more counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the Superior Court

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The word "vicinage" in example sentences

This shows that vicinage is not taken seriously by lawyers or judges. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Several other “rights” provisions also disappeared, including those asserting separation of powers, giving persons with religious scruples exemption from military service, and requiring that criminal trials be in the “vicinage” of the crime. ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)

Trials, it said, “shall be by an impartial jury of freeholders of the vicinage, with the requisite of unanimity for conviction, of the right of challenge, and other accustomed requisites.” ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)

Joseph McDowell also said that none of the objections to Article III had been answered to his satisfaction, and trial by a jury of the vicinage or neighborhood, which the Constitution failed to secure in civil cases, “is one of the greatest securities for property.” ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)

The Constitution assured that there would be jury trials in criminal cases, but even that provision raised concern because it failed to specify that the juries would be of the “vicinage.” ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)

By the ancient common law, the trial of all facts is decided by a jury of impartial men from the immediate vicinage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now where there is no constituted judge, as between independent states there is not, the vicinage neighborhood itself is the natural judge. ❋ Strobe Talbott (2008)

This principle, which, like the rest, is as true of nations as of individual men, has bestowed on the grand vicinage of Europe a duty to know, and a right to prevent, any capital innovation which may amount to the erection of a dangerous nuisance. ❋ Strobe Talbott (2008)

The accused “shall enjoy” the right to a “speedy and public trial,” by an “impartial” jury of the vicinage; he must be told the nature of his crime; must be able to confront the witnesses; must “have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor” and the “Assistance of Counsel for his defense” art. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

The civil law, like the right to trial by “an impartial jury of the vicinage”45 also preserved by the constitution, was too important to the people who mattered in New Orleans. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

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