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What is a vicinage?

What is a vicinage? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (now rare) A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
  2. (now rare) The people of a neighbourhood.
  3. The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.
  4. (Britain, US, law) The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.
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The animals revered by a tribe are those of its vicinage, the inhabitants of its hunting grounds.
Beside, it is the vicinage of the most considerable gold-mines on all Borneo.
Not so the vicinage of an open receptacle for the waste of human indigestion.
It is communicated from one person to another by vicinage or by contact.
These were to be of his vicinage, but not bound to him by the tie whether of blood or marriage.
James Madison explained the omission of a vicinage clause in the Virginia Ratifying Convention as follows: It was objected yesterday, that there was no provision for a jury from the vicinage.

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