Biline

A word essentially English, used by Britton in the sense of collateral. JSn line biline; m the collateral line. Britt, c.

119. BILINGUI8.

Lat. [from bis, twice, and lingiut, a tongue.]. Of a double language or tongue; that can speak two languages. A term applied in the old books to a jury composed partly of Englishmen and partly of foreigners, which, by the English law, an alien party to a suit is, in certain cases, entitled to; more commonly called a jury de medieiate Ungues, 3 Bl, Com, 360.

4'Stepk, Com, 422.

Triatio bilinguis; a trial by such a jury.

Molloy de Jut. Marit. 448.

See I>e medietate Unguis, Half tongue.