Legal Term Dictionary

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...

The state or condition of dying without having made a valid will. Brown v. Mugway, 15 N. J. Law, 331.

The state or condition of dying without having made a valid will. Brown v. Mugway, 15 N. J. Law, 331. Less...

Without making a will. A person is said to die intestate when he dies without making a will, or dies without leaving anything to testify what his wishes were with respect to the disposal of his property after his death. The word is also often used to signify the person More...

Without making a will. A person is said to die intestate when he dies without making a will, or dies without leaving anything to testify what his wishes were with respect to the disposal of his property after his death. The word is also often used to signify the person himself. Thus, in speaking of the property of a person who died intestate, it is common to say "the in" testate's property;" i. e., the property of the person dying in an intestate condition. Brown. See In re Cameron's Estate, 47 App. Div. 120, 62 N. Y. Supp. 187; Messmann v. Egenberger, 46 App. Div. 46, 61 N. Y. Supp. 556; Code Civ. Proc. N. Y. 1889, ? 2514, subd. 1. Besides the strict meaning of the word as above given, there is also a sense in which intestacy may be partial; that is, where a man leaves a will which does not dispose of his whole estate, he is said to "die Intestate" as to the property so omitted. -intestate succession. A succession is called "intestate" when the deceased has left no will, or when his will has been revoked or anr nulled as irregular. Therefore the heirs to whom a succession has fallen by the effects of law only are called "heirs ab intestato" Civ. Code La. art. 1096. Less...

Lat. In the civil law. Intestate; without a will. Calvin.

Lat. In the civil law. Intestate; without a will. Calvin. Less...

Lat. In the civil and old English law. An intestate; one who dies without a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7. Intestatns deeedit, qni ant omnino testamentnm non fecit; ant non jure fecit; ant id qnod feoerat mptnm irri-tnnrve faotnm est; ant nemo ex oo hseres exstitlt. A person dies intestate More...

Lat. In the civil and old English law. An intestate; one who dies without a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7. Intestatns deeedit, qni ant omnino testamentnm non fecit; ant non jure fecit; ant id qnod feoerat mptnm irri-tnnrve faotnm est; ant nemo ex oo hseres exstitlt. A person dies intestate who either has made no testament at all or has made one not legally valid; or if the testament he has made be revoked, or made useless; or if no one becomes heir under it Inst 3, 1, Pr. Less...