Vēn'ūe, n.

n. (Law.) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which an act or fact is alleged to have happened; the place where an action is laid. [Written also visne.]

The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. Blackstone.

In certain cases, the court has power to change the venue, which is to direct the trial to be had in a different county from that where the venue is laid.

To lay a venue, to allege a place.