Venia Aetatis

In the civil law. The privilege of age. A privilege granted by a prince or sovereign, in virtue of which a person is entitled to act, sui juris, as if he were of full age. Calv. Lex.; Story, Confl. Laws, § 60, note. VENIAE FACILITAS INCENTIVUM EST dellnquendi. Facility of pardon is an Incentive to crime. 3 Inst. 236. VENIRE (Lat. to come). The name of a writ (more commonly called venire facias) by which a jury is summoned. VENIRE FACIAS (Lat that you cause to come).

In practice. According to the English law, the proper process to be issued on an indictment for any petit misdemeanor, on a penal statute, is a writ called venire facias. It is in the nature of a summons to cause the party to appear. 4 Bl. Comm. 18; 1 Chit. Crim. Law, 351.

The privilege of age, i. e., of one entitled to act in his own right.