Lat. To come; to appear in court This word is sometimes used as the name of the writ for summoning a jury, more commonly called a ” venire facias .”

New trail order after a mistrial is called.

Lat. In practice . A judicial writ, directed to the sheriff of the county in which a cause is to be tried, commanding him that he “cause to come” before […]

A member of a panel of jurors; a juror summoned by a writ of venire facias .

L. Lat. In old pleading. Comes and defends . The proper words of appearance and defense in an action. 1 Ld. Raym. 117.

Lat. In old pleading. Comes and says. 2 Salk. 544.

Mapping diagram of overlapping circles showing the relationship between items.

Adam Smith theory proposing that greater economic resources are used in international trade than through national trade.

In French law . Sale; contract of sale .

The belly or womb. The term Is used In law as designating the maternal parentage of children. Thus, where in ordinary phraseology we should say that A. was R.’s child […]

In old English law . A writ that lay for an heir presumptive , to cause an examination to be made of the widow in order to determine whether she […]

a new business venture that is started in order to make some sort of monetary profit.

Funds invested in new high risk opportunities. This is done in exchange for preinitial public equity stake. Most technology and biotechnology get their starts here. Refer to down round and […]

Private, semi-government or government company providing growth equity or start-up capital for venture showing promise of higher returns than market rates of interest.

Private investor offering capital to business ventures with promise. See adventure capitalist and angel investor .

Plan written by an entrepreneur showing how they manage and direct a new business to get to certain goals.

In pleading and practice. A neighborhood ; the neighborhood, place, or county in which an injury is declared to have been doue, or fact declared to have hap- pened. 3 […]

this is a term given to the changing of a venue where a trial will be held because the new location is better for a fair trial.

1. The facts that take a way a defendant’s right to be sued where he lives. 2. The facts that will be established at a hearing.

a term used to describe the truthfulness or the honesty of a person.

I,. Fr. True. An old form of vrai. Thus, veray, or true, tenant, is one who holds in fee-simple; veiny tenant by the manner, is the same as tenant by […]

Lat. (Plural of verbum.) Words.

Parol; by word of mouth; oral; as. verbal agreement , verbal evidence; or written, but not signed, or not executed with the formalities required for a deed VERBAL 15 or […]

An oral agreement that is reached without anything committed to writing. Also a parol contract . See oral contract ; verbal contract .

a contract that is spoken and is not written down. See oral contract ; verbal agreement .