1. Vicinity; proximity.
2. The place where a crime is committed or a trial is held; the place from which jurors are to be drawn for trial; esp., the locale from which the accused is entitled to have jurors selected.
— Also termed vicinetum (vis-[schwa]-nee-t[schwa]m). [Cases: Criminal Law 108; Jury 33(3). C.J.S. Criminal Law § 179; Juries § 278.]
“Whereas venue refers to the locality in which charges will be brought and adjudicated, vicinage refers to the locality from which jurors will be drawn…. The vicinage concept requires that the jurors be selected from a geographical district that includes the locality of the commission of the crime, and it traditionally also mandates that such district not extend too far beyond the general vicinity of that locality.” Wayne R. LaFave & Jerold H. Israel, Criminal Procedure § 16.1, at 738–39 (2d ed. 1992).
3. A right of common that neighboring tenants have in a barony or fee.
