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potential jurors were to be drawn from the vicinage in which the crime occurred
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Of the 28 judgeships in vicinage 15, which is made up of Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties, there are nine vacancies.
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Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2023
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Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2023
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“Vicinage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vicinage. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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vicinage
noun
vic·i·nage
ˈvis-ᵊn-ij 
: a particular vicinity or district: as
a
: the district in which a crime takes place and from which the accused is entitled to have an impartial jury selected as required by the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
b
in the civil law of Louisiana
: the neighborhood in which one is obligated not to cause material injury to others (as by a nuisance) in the free exercise of rights of ownership in immovable property
these obligations of vicinage are legal servitudes imposed on the owner of property—Rodrigue v. Copeland, 475 So. 2d 1071 (1985)
Rodrigue v. Copeland, 475 So. 2d 1071 (1985)Etymology
Anglo-French veisinage neighborhood, from veisin neighboring, from Old French, from Latin vicinus
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