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Vicinage

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Neighborhood; near dwelling; vicinity.

2 Bl. Comm. 33; Cowell.

In modern usage, it means the county where a trial is bad, a crime committed, etc.

See Sinte v. Crinklaw, 40 Neb. 759, 59 N. W. 370; Con vers v. Railway Co.., 18 Mich. 468; Taylor v. Gardiner, 11 R. I. 184; Ex parte Me-Neeley, 36 W. Va. 84, 14 S. E. 436, 15 In R. A. 226, 32 Am. St Rep. 831.