Venire

I. To come, to appear, — the name of a writ by wjiich a jury is summoned. Venire facias: cause you to come; a judicial writ, directed to the sheriff, commanding him to cause twelve good and lawful men of the body of the county to come before the court for a jury,^— in the United States commonly employed, but in England, though sued out, not used, the jury being in fact summoned under a writ called a distringas juratores, which is issued with the venire; — ad respondendum: cause you to come to answer; a writ to summon to answer to any crime under felony or treason; — de novo: In the civil and old English law. To come; to appear in court; to arrive, as a time or day; to come to, or into; to become subject to. Venire in crimen: to be accused of a crime.