英文法律词典 V-6

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.