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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....
Half tongue
A jury for the trial of a foreigner composed equally of citizens and aliens...
De medietate lingu'
De medietate lingu' (of a moiety of tongue), Jury. At Common Law an alien was entitled to be tried by a jury of which one-half consisted of aliens, and the (English) County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), s. 47, enacted that, on the prayer of any alien indicted for felony or misdemeanour, the sheriff should return for one-half of the jury a competent number of aliens, if so many there were in the town or place where the trial was had; and if not, then so many aliens as should be found in the same town or place, if any. An alien is now triable in the same manner as if he were a natural born British subject; see the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, s. 18, in substitution for the (English) Naturalization Act, 1870. See ALIEN....
blucher
A kind of half boot or high shoe with laces over the tongue named from the Prussian general Bluumlcher...
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