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noun area, city, community, country, district, division, environment, locale, locality, location, point, region, scene, section, site, spot, state, town, vicinity, village, zoneAssociated concepts: jurisdiction, long-arm jurisdiction, place of domicile, place of employment, place of resiience, place to be named with particularity in searches and seizures, short-arm jurisdiction, venue
See also: allocate, apportion, area, arrange, base, building, case, character, circuit, class, deploy, dispose, employ, fix, habitation, house, identify, inhabitation, instate, levy, locality, locate, location, lodge, marshal, organize, perceive, pigeonhole, pinpoint, plant, position, post, premises, prestige, province, recall, recognize, recollect, region, remember, reputation, reside, residence, role, scene, seat, set down, site, situation, situs, source, stand, status, structure, territory
PLACE, pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
2. In local actions, the plaintiff must lay his venue in the county in
which the action arose. It is a general rule, that the place of every
traversable fact, stated in the pleading, must be distinctly alleged; Com.
Dig. Pleader, c. 20; Cro. Eliz. 78, 98; Lawes' Pl. 57; Bac. Ab. Venue, B;
Co. Litt. 303 a; and some place must be alleged for every such fact; this is
done by designating the city, town, village, parish or district, together
with the county in which the fact is alleged to have occurred; and the place
thus designated, is called the venue. (q.v.)
3. In transitory actions, the place laid in the declaration, need not
be the place where the cause of action arose, unless when required by
statute. In local actions, the plaintiff will be confined in his proof to
the county laid in the declaration.
4. In criminal cases the facts must be laid and proved to have been
committed within the jurisdiction of the court, or the defendant must be
acquitted. 2 Hawk. c. 25, s. 84; Arch. Cr. Pl. 40, 95. Vide, generally,
Gould on Pl. c. 3, 102-104; Arch. Civ. Pl. 366; Hamm. N. P. 462; 1 Saund.
347, n. 1; 2 Saund. 5 n.