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Webster 1913 Edition
Vicinage
Vic′i-nage
(?; 48)
, Noun.
[OF.
veisinage
, F. voisinage
, from OF. veisin
, F. voisin
, neighboring, a neighbor, L. vicinus
. See Vicinity
.] The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity;
“To summon the Protestant gentleman of the vicinage.” as, a jury must be of the
. vicinage
Macaulay.
Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of
vicinage
and good neighborhood. Sir W. Scott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vicinage
VIC'INAGE
,Noun.
Neighborhood; the place or places adjoining or near. A jury must be of the vicinage, or body of the country.
In law, common because of vicinage, is where the inhabitants of two townships contiguous to each other, have usually intercommoned with one another; the beasts of one straying into the other's fields without molestation from either.