VENUE

Definitions

1. 1. A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid. The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. Blackstone.
2. 2. A bout; a hit; a turn. See Venew. [R.] To lay a venue (Law), to allege a place.