Legal Term Dictionary

A set or series of written questions drawn up for the purpose of being propounded to a party in equity, a garnishee, or a witness whose testimony is taken on deposition; a series of formal written questions used in the judicial examination of a party or a witness. In taking More...

A set or series of written questions drawn up for the purpose of being propounded to a party in equity, a garnishee, or a witness whose testimony is taken on deposition; a series of formal written questions used in the judicial examination of a party or a witness. In taking evidence on depositions, the interrogatories are usually prepared and settled by counsel, and reduced to writing in advance of the examination. Interrogatories are either direct or cross, the former being those which are put on behalf of the party calling a witness; the latter are those which are interposed by the adverse party. Less...

Lat Interruption. A term used both in the civil and common law of prescription. Calvin. Interrmptio multiples non tollit prss-seriptlonem semel obtentam. 2 Inst 654. Frequent Interruption does not take away a prescription once secured.

Lat Interruption. A term used both in the civil and common law of prescription. Calvin. Interrmptio multiples non tollit prss-seriptlonem semel obtentam. 2 Inst 654. Frequent Interruption does not take away a prescription once secured. Less...

The occurrence of some act or fact, during the period of prescription, which is sufficient to arrest the running of the statute of limitations. It Is said to be either "natural" or "civil," the former being caused by the act of the party; the latter by the legal effect or More...

The occurrence of some act or fact, during the period of prescription, which is sufficient to arrest the running of the statute of limitations. It Is said to be either "natural" or "civil," the former being caused by the act of the party; the latter by the legal effect or operation of some fact or circumstance. Innerarity Y. Mims, 1 Ala. 674; Carr v. Foster, 3 Q. B. 588; Flight v. Thomas, 2 Adol. A El. 701. Interruption of the possession is where the right is not enjoyed or exercised continuously; interruption of the right is where the person having or claiming the right ceases the exercise of it in such a manner as to show that he does not claim to be entitled to exercise it In Scotch law. The true proprietor's claiming his right during the course of prescription. BelL Less...

The point of intersection of two roads is the point where their middle lines Intersect. In re Springfield Road, 73 Pa. 127.

The point of intersection of two roads is the point where their middle lines Intersect. In re Springfield Road, 73 Pa. 127. Less...

Between two or more states; between places or persons in different states; concerning or affecting two or more states politically or territorially. -Interstate commerce. Traffic, intercourse, commercial trading, or the transportation or persons or property between or among the several states of the Union, or from or between points in More...

Between two or more states; between places or persons in different states; concerning or affecting two or more states politically or territorially. -Interstate commerce. Traffic, intercourse, commercial trading, or the transportation or persons or property between or among the several states of the Union, or from or between points in one state and points in another state; commerce between two states, or between places lying in different states. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat 104, 6 L. Ed. 23; Wabash, etc. R. Co. v. Illinois, 118 U. S. 557, 7 Sup. Ct. 4, 30 h. Ed. 244; Louisville A N. R. Co. v. Railroad Com'rs (C. C.) 19 Fed. 701.-Interstate commerce aot. The act of congress of February 4, 1887 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 3154), designed to regulate commerce between the states, and particularly the transportation of persons and property, by carriers, between interstate points, prescribing that charges for such transportation shall be reasonable and just, prohibiting unjust discrimination, rebates, draw-backs, preferences, pooling of freights, etc., requiring schedules of rates to be published, establishing a commission to carry out the measures enacted, and prescribing the powers and duties of such commission and the procedure before it-Interstate commerce commission. A commission created by the interstate commerce act (q. v.) to carry out the measures therein enacted, composed of five persons, appointed by the President, empowered to inquire into the business of the carriers affected, to enforce the law, to receive, invest!4 gate, and determine complaints made to them of any violation of the act, make annua] reports, hold stated sessions, etc-Interstate extradi* tion. The reclamation and surrender, according to due legal proceedings, of a person who, having committed a crime in one of the states of the Union, has fled into another state to evade justice or escape prosecution.-Interstate law. That branch of private International iaw which affords rules and principles for the determination of controversies between citi-sens of different states in respect to mutual rights or obligations, in so far as the same are affected by the diversity of their citizenship or by diversity in the laws or institutions of the several states. Less...

An intervener is a person who voluntarily interposes In an action or other proceeding with the leave of the court

An intervener is a person who voluntarily interposes In an action or other proceeding with the leave of the court Less...

See DAMAGES.

See DAMAGES. Less...

In international law. Intervention is such an interference between two or more states as may (according to the event) result in a resort to force; while mediation always is, and is intended to be and to continue, peaceful only. Intervention between a sovereign and his own subjects is not justified More...

In international law. Intervention is such an interference between two or more states as may (according to the event) result in a resort to force; while mediation always is, and is intended to be and to continue, peaceful only. Intervention between a sovereign and his own subjects is not justified by anything in international law; but a remonstrance may be addressed to the sovereign in a proper case. Brown. In English ecclesiastieal law. The preceeding of a third person, who, not being originally a party to the suit or proceeding; but claiming an interest in the subject-matter in dispute, in order the better to protect such interest, Interposes his claim. 2 Chit Pr. 492; 3 Chit Commer. Law, 633 ; 2 Hags. Const 137; 3 Phillim. Ecc. Law, 586. In tbe civil law. The act by which a third party demands to be received as a party in a suit pending between other persons. The intervention is made either for the purpose of being joined to the plaintiff, and to claim the same thing he does, or some other thing connected with it; or to join the defendant and with him to oppose the claim of the plaintiff, which it is his interest to defeat Poth. Proc Civile, pt. 1, c 2, | 7, no. 3. In practice. A proceeding in a suit or action by which a third person is permitted by the court to make himself a party, either joining the plaintiff in claiming what la sought by the complaint or uniting with the defendant in resisting the claims of the plaintiff, or demanding something adversely to both of them. Logan v. Greenlaw (C. C.) 32 Fed. 16; Fischer v. Hanna, 8 Colo. App. 471, 47 Pac. 308; Gale v. Frazier, 4 Dak. 196, 30 N. W. 138; Reay v. Butler (Cal.) 7 Pac. 671. Less...

Lat. A witness incompetent to testify. Calvin.

Lat. A witness incompetent to testify. Calvin. Less...

One who has not testamentary capacity; e. g., an infant, lunatic, or person civilly dead.

One who has not testamentary capacity; e. g., an infant, lunatic, or person civilly dead. Less...