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Venue :: Venue (n.) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid..

Posse Comitatus :: Posse comitatus () The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed..

County :: County (n.) A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one..

Shire :: Shire (n.) A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire..

Inhabitant :: Inhabitant (n.) One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state..

Viscounty :: Viscounty (n.) The quality, rank, or office of a viscount..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted..

Non Est Inventus :: Non est inventus () The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county..

Shire :: Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county..

Riding :: Riding (n.) One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding..

Coventry :: Coventry (n.) A town in the county of Warwick, England..

Yorkshire :: Yorkshire (n.) A county in the north of England.

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris..

Ward :: Ward (n.) A division of a county.

County :: County (n.) A count; an earl or lord.

Albertite :: Albertite (n.) A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A. /bert, New Brunswick..

Courtehouse :: Courtehouse (n.) A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States.

Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..

County :: County (n.) An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.

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