Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, a jury of which one half are aliens, allowed to an alien who is tried on a criminal charge. Such juries have been abolished in England, but are still allowed in some of the United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (O. Law) A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
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Instead you ride in the back of a rickety bus answering the questions of a friendly co-passenger, spoken in the cutesy burbling half-tongue language of the game's inhabitants.
Eurogamer 2008
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