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* Medietas Linguae *

MEDIETAS LINGUAE - Half tongue. This expression was used to signify that a jury for the trial of a foreigner or alien for a crime was to be composed one half of natives and the other of foreigners. The jury de medietate linguae is not used in the United States.
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