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Definition :

Half-tongue, a jury de meditate lingu', formerly empanelled to try foreigners. An alien is now tribal in the same manner as if he were a natural-born British subject. [see British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, s. 18]

In England, a jury empanelled to try an alien, and composed chief of one nations and half of other. Jury ended in 1914, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 718.