(A) The location where a legal case is to be heard. State and federal rules govern the location that is proper for a case to be heard, which usually related to providing a fair place that doesn’t significantly inconvenience either of the parties more than is necessary. For example, generally a plaintiff cannot sue a defendant in the county in which the plaintiff resides if the accident happened across the state and in the county in which the defendant resides. Since the accident occurred in that second location, which is also where most witnesses are probably located, venue would likely be changed from the plaintiff’s county in which he filed to the second county where the accident occurred and the defendant resides. (B) pleading. The venue is the county from which the jury are to come, who are to try the issue. 2. As it is a general rule, that the place of every traversable fact stated in the pleadings must be distinctly alleged, or at least that some certain place must be alleged for every such fact, it follows that a venue must be stated in every declaration. 3. In local actions, in which the subject or thing to be recovered is local, the true venue must be laid; that is, the action must be brought in that county where the cause of action arose: among these are all real actions, and actions which arise out of some local subject, or the violation of some local rights or interest; as the common law action of waste, trespass quare clausum fregit, trespass for nuisances to houses or lands disturbance of right of way, obstruction or diversion of ancient water courses. 4. In a transitory action, the plaintiff may lay the venue in any county he pleases; that is, he may bring suit wherever he may find the defendant and lay his cause of action to have arisen there even though the cause of action arose in a foreign jurisdiction.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
In pleading and practice. A neighborhood; the neighborhood, place, or county In which an injury is declared to have been done, or fact declared to have happened. 3 Bl. Comm. 294. Venue also denotes the county in which an action or prosecution is brought for trial, and which is to furnish the panel of jurors. To “change the venue” is to transfer the cause for trial to another county or district. In the common law practice, the venue is that part of the declaration in an action which designates the county in which the action is to be tried. Sweet. Local venue. In pleading. A venue which .mast be laid fn a particular county. When the actiori could have arisen only in a particular county, it is local, and the venue must be laid in that county.