Visne

The neighborhood; a neighboring place; a place near at hand; the venue.

Formerly the visne was confined to the immediate neighborhood, where the cause of action arose, and many verdicts were disturbed because the visne was too large, which, becoming a great grievance several statutes were passed to remedy the evil. The 21 James I gives aid after verdict where the visne is partly wrong, that is, where it is warded out of too many or too few places in the county named. The 16 and 17 Charles II. goes further, and cures defects of the visne wholly, so that the cause is tried by a jury of the proper county.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.