VIC'INAGE, noun [from Latin vicinia, neighborhood; vicinus, near.] 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.
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