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Vicinage

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The neighborhood; the venue. VICINETUM (Lat.) The neighborhood; vicinage; the venue.

Co. Litt. 158i).

VICINI VICINIORA PRAESUMUNTUR scire

Neighbors are presumed to know things of the neighborhood.

4 Inst. 173.

VICINIA (Lat. from vicirms, near). In the civil law. Nearness of dwelling; neighborhood; a neighborhood; a neighboring place. Distinguished from confinium, as being applied to urban estates. Calv. Lex.