rare. [a. OF. visnet (see prec.) or Anglo-L. visnetum (also vicinetum).]
† 1. A trial by jury. Obs.
14[?]. in Sc. Acts Parlt. (1814), I. 378/2. Na Galowa man aw to haf visnet bot gif he refus þe law of Galowa and ask visnet.
2. Hist. = VISNE 1.
1872. Robertson, Hist. Essays, 122. The Twelve-hides appears to have been usually regarded as a small visnet, or neighbourhood. Ibid., 137.
