Legal Term Dictionary

Search our free database of thousands of legal terms. The easiest-to-read, most user-friendly guide to legal terms.This dictionary is from the early 20th century and is not to be construed as legal advice.

Search
  • INTERLINEATION
    The act of writing between the lines of an instrument; also what is written between lines. Morris v. Vanderen, 1 Dall. 67, 1 L. Ed. 38Russell v. Eubanks, 84 Mo. 88.
  • INTERLOCUTOR
    In Scotch practice. An order or decree of court; an order made in open court 2 Swint. 362; Arkley, 32. -Interlocutor of relevancy. In Scotch practice. A decree as to the relevancy of a libel or indictment in a criminal case. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 37a
  • INTERLOCUTORY
    Provisional; temporary; not final. Something intervening between the commencement and the end of a snit which decides some point or matter, but is not a final decision of the whole controversy. Mora v. Sun Mut. Ins. Co., 13 Abb. Prac. (N. Y.) 310. As to Interlocutory "Costs," "Decree," "Judgment," "Order," More...
  • INTERLOPERS
    Persons who run into business to which they have no right or who interfere wrongfully; persons who enter a country or place to trade without license. Webster.
  • INTERMARRIAGE
    In the popular sense, this term denotes the contracting of a marriage relation between two persons considered as members of different nations, tribes, families, etc., as, between the sovereigns of two different countries, between an American and an alien, between Indians of different tribes, between the scions of different clans More...
  • INTERMEDDLE
    To interfere with property or the conduct of business affairs officiously or without right or title. McQueen v. Babcock, 41 Barb. (N. Y.) 330; In re Shinn's Estate, 166 Pa. 121, 30 Atl. 1026, 45 Am. St Rep. 656. Not a technical legal term, but sometimes used with reference to More...
  • INTERMEDIARY
    In modern civil law. A broker; one who is employed to negotiate a matter between two parties, and who for that reason is considered as the mandatary (agent) of both. Civ. Code La. 1900, art 3016.
  • INTERMEDIATE
    Intervening; interposed during the progress of a suit proceeding, business, etc., or between its beginning and end. -Intermediate account. In probate law. An account of an executor, administrator, or guardian filed subsequent to his first or initial account and before his final account. Specifically in New York, an account filed More...
  • INTERMITTENT EASEMENT
    See EASEMENT
  • INTERMIXTURE OF GOODS
    Confusion of goods; the confusing or mingling together of goods belonging to different owners in such a way that the property of neither owner can be separately identified or extracted from the mass. See Smith v. Sanborn, 6 Gray (Mass.) 134. And see CONFUSION OF GOODS.
Showing 730 of 855