Lingua
Defined in 1 dictionary — Cyclopedic (1922)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
(Lat.) A tongue; speech. Applied, in old English law, to the verdict of a jury. LIQUERE (Lat.)
In the civil law. To be clear, evident, or satisfactory. When a judex was in doubt how to decide a case, he represented to the praetor, under oath, sibi non liquere, that it was not clear to him, and was thereupon discharged. Calv. Lex.