VENIRE, OR VENIRE PACIAS JURATORES, practice. The name of a writ1 directed to the sheriff commanding him to cause to come from the body of the county before the court from which it issued, on some day certain and therein specified2, a certain number of qualified3 citizens wbo are to act as jurors in the said court. Steph. Pl. 104; 2 Graydon's Forms, 314; and see 6 Serg. & Rawle, 414; 21 Vin. Ab. 291; Com. Dig. Enquest, C 1, &c.; Id. Pleader, 2 S 12, 3 0 20; Id. Process, D 8; 3 Chit. Pr. 797.
VENIRE FACIAS DE NOVO, practice. The name of a new writ of venire facias; this is awarded when, by reason of some irregularity or defect in the proceeding4 on the first venire, or the trial, the proper effect of that which has been frustrated5, or the verdict become void in law: as, for example, when the jury has been improperly6 chosen, or an uncertain, ambiguous or defective7 verdict has been rendered. Steph. Pl. 120 21 Vin. Ab. 466 1 Sell. Pr. 495.
VENTE A REMERE. A term used in Louisiana, which signifies a sale made reserving a right to the seller to repurchase the property gold by returning the price paid for it.
2. The time during which a repurchase may be made cannot exceed ten years, and if by the agreement it so exceed, it shall be reduced to ten years. The time fixed9 for redemption must be strictly10 adhered to and cannot be enlarged by the judge, nor exercised afterwards. Code 1545-1549.
3. The following is an instance, of a vente a remere. A sells to B, for the purpose of securing B against endorsement11, with a clause that "whenever A should relieve B from such endorsements12, without B's, having recourse on the land, then B would reconvey the same to A, for A's own use." This is a vente a remere, and until A releases B from his endorsements, the property is B's, and forms no part of A's estate. 7 N. S. 278. See 1 N. S. 528; 3 L. R. 153; 4 L. R. 142; Troplong, Vente, ch. 6; 6 Toull. p. 257.
VENTER or VENTRE. Signifies literally13 the belly14. In law it is used figuratively for the wife: for example, a man has three children by the first, and one by the second venter.
2. A child is said to be in ventre sa mere8 before it is born; while it is a foetus.
VENTER INSPICIENDO, Eng. law. A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him that, in the presence of twelve men, and as many women, he cause examination to be made, whether a woman therein named is with child or not; and if with child, then about what time it will be born; and that he certify15 the same. It is granted in a case when a widow, whose husband had lands in fee simple, marries again soon after her husband's death, and declares herself pregnant by her first husband and, under that pretext16, withholds17 the lands from the next heir. Cro. Eliz. 506; Fleta, lib. 1, c, 15.