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The latter piece, known as the vicinage clause, was included by the Framers not as a matter of convenience for jurors but rather to ensure that jurors were able to impart the values of the community in which they reside.

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District Court for New Jersey, Trenton Vicinage, comes three weeks after ADF attorneys sued Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson on behalf of a chain of pro-life clinics to block his investigation into their business practices.

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“And this is Jane Eyre? Are you coming from Millcote, and on foot? Yes—just one of your tricks: not to send for a carriage, and come clattering over street and road like a common mortal, but to steal into the vicinage of your home along with twilight, just as if you were a dream or a shade. What the deuce have you done with yourself this last month?”

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Police say the man made his way up the Antrim Road towards Vicinage Park before he was picked up in a silver-coloured car.

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That a whole vicinage, when it had timely notice, should bind itself in a league to defeat the purpose of the inquisitors, as at Castelnaudary, must have been a frequent experience; that, sooner or later, despair should bring about a catastrophe like that of Avignonet was inevitable.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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