The tongue in whlch several formal proceedings of state in England are stlll carrled on. The lan-guage, having remained the same since the date of the Conquest, at which it was in-troduced into England, is very different from the French of this day, retaining all the pe-cultarlties which at that time distinguished every province from the rest A peculiar mode of pronunciation (considered authentic) is handed down and preserved by the officials who have, on particular occasions, to speak the tongue. Norman French was the language of Euglish legal procedure till the 36 Edw. III. (A. D. 1362). wharton
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
