BILINGUIS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BILINGUIS, English law. One who uses two tongues or languages. Formerly a 
  jury, part Englishmen and part foreigners, to give a verdict between an 
  Englishman and a foreigner. Vide Medietas Linguae, Plowd. 2. It is abolished 
  in Pennsylvania. Act April 14, 1834, Sec. 149.