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A person summoned under a venire facias.

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Usage examples (3)
  • In the courtroom, a judge could simply decide that since the disparate treatment was suffered by the defendant and not the excused veniremen, it would henceforth be true...
  • Judge Goff -- All special veniremen will please stand and be sworn in.
  • But before he reached the court-house, where for a half-hour yet the cupola bell would not clang out its summons to veniremen and witnesses, he found fresh fuel for his...
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