Lat A witness in-competent to testify. Calvin
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TO. Lat. In the dvil law. In-testate; without a will. Calvin
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The point of intersection of two roads is the point where their middle lines intersect. In re Sprlngfleld Road, 73 Pa. 127
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Between two or more states; between places or persons in different states; concerning or affecting two or more states politically or territorially
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Lat Interruption. A term used both in the civil and common law of prescription. Calvin
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The occurrence of eome act or fact, during the period of prescription, which is sufliclent 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 ▼. Mims, 1 Ala. 674; Carr v. Foster, 3 Q. B. 588; Flight v. Thomas, 2 Adol. & El. 701
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In French law. An act which contains the interrogatories mode by the judge to the person accused, ou the facts whlch nre the object of the accusation, aud the auswers of the accused. Poth. Proc. Crim. c. 4, art 2, | 1
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A set or series of wrltten questions drawn up for the pur-pose of heing propounded to a party ln
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A person sworn at a trlal to lnterpret the evldence of a foreigner or a deaf and dumb person to the court Amory v. Fellowes, 5 Mass. 226; People v. Lem Deo, 132 Cal. 199, 64 Pac. 266
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An interval between relgns. The period which elapses between the death of a soverelgn and the election of another. The vacancy whlch occurs when there is no government
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To construe; to seek out the meaning of language; to translate orally from one tongue to another
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The art or process of discovering and expounding the intended signification of the language used lu a statute, will, contract, or any other written document, that is, the meaning which the author designed it to convey to others. People v. Com’rs of Taxes, 95 N. Y. 559; Rome ▼. Knox, 14 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 272; Ming v. Pratt, 22 Mont 262, 56 Pac. 279; Tallman v. Tallman, 3 Mlsc. Rep. 465, 23 N. Y. Supp. 734
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The act of inter- •* pointing; the words interpolated
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In the civil law. The act by whlch, in consequence of an agreement, the party bound declares that he will not he bound beyond a certain time, wolff, Inst Nat S 752
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1. A plea by which a pe^ son sued in respect to property disclaims any interest in it and demands that rival claimants shall litigate their titles between themselves and relieve him from responsV bility. Bennett v. wolverton, 24 Kan. ,2S0t See INTERPLEADKB
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A minister of a second order, charged with the affairs of the papal court in countries where that court hns no nuncio
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A messenger between two parties; a go-between. Applied to a broker, as the agent of both parties. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 204
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To restrict or shut up a per-son, as a political prisoner, withln a limlted territory
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Relating to the Interior) comprised within boundary lines; of interior concern or interest; domestic, as opposed to foreign
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Con-fusion 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 Coit-fusion of Goods
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In modern civil law. A broker; one who is employed to negotiate a matter between two pnrties, and who for that reason is considered as the mandatary (agent) of both. Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 3016
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