venire facias

1. 1.

   a judicial writ ordering a sheriff to summon people for jury duty

   Broaderwrit

   law

Questions about venire facias

What does venire facias mean?

venire facias means "a judicial writ ordering a sheriff to summon people for jury duty".

Is venire facias a common word?

venire facias is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.