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INTERPRET

INTERNAL

INTERNUNCIO. A minister of a second order, charged with the affairs of the papal court in countries where that court has no nuncio. INTERNUNCniS. A messenger between two parties; a go-between. Applied to a broker, as the agent of both parties. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 204. INTERPELLATION. In the civil law. The act by which, in consequence of an agree ment, the party bound declares that he will not be bound beyond a certain time. Wolff, Inst Nat. § 752. INTERPLEA. 1. A plea by which a per 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 responsi bility. Bennett v. Wolverton, 24 Kan. 286. See INTEKPLEADEB. 2. In Missouri, a statutory proceeding, serving as a substitute for the action of re plevin, by which a third person intervenes in an action of attachment, sets up his own title to the specific property attached, and seeks to recover the possession of it. See Rice v. Sally, 176 Mo. 107, 75 S. W. 398; Spooner v. Ross, 24 Mo. App. 603; State v. Barker, 26 Mo. App. 491; Brownwell, etc Car. Co. v. Barnard, 139 Mo. 142, 40 S. W. 762. When two or more persons claim the same thing (or fund) of a third, and he, laying no claim to it himself, is ignorant which of them has a right to it, and fears he may be prejudiced by their pro ceeding against him to recover it, he may file a bill in equity against them, the object of which is to make them litigate their title between themselves, instead of litigating it with him, and such a bill is called a "bill of interpleader." Brown. By the statute 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 58, sum mary proceedings at law were provided for the same purpose, in actions of assumpsit, debt, detinue, and trover. And the same remedy is known, in one form or the other, in most or all of the United States. Under the Pennsylvania practice, when goods levied upon by the sheriff are claimed by a third party, the sheriff takes a rule of interpleader on the parties, upon which, when made absolute, a feigned issue is framed, and the title to the goods is tested. The goods, pending the proceed ings, remain in the custody of the defendant up on the execution of a forthcoming bond. Bou vier. INTERPOLATE. To insert words in a complete document. INTERPOLATION. The act of inter polating; the words interpolated. INTERPRET. To construe; to seek out the meaning of language; to translate orally from one tongue to another- INTERPLEADER.

of rivers and harbors, systems of artificial ir rigation, and the improvement of water powers; but it does not include the building and main tenance of state institutions. See Guernsey v. Burlington, 11 Fed. Cas. 99; Rippe v. Becker, 56 Minn. 100, 57 N. W. 331, 22 L. R. A. 857; State v. Froehlich, 115 Wis. 32, 91 N. W. 115, 58 L. R. A. 757, 95 Am. St. Rep. 894; U. S. v. Dodge County, 110 U. S. 156, 3 Sup. Ct. 590, 28 L. Ed. 103; In re Senate Resolution, 12 Colo. 285, 21 Pac. 483; Savannah v. Kelly, 108 U. S. 184, 2 Sup. Ct. 468, 27 L. Ed. 696; Blair v. Cuming County, 111 U. S. 363, 4 Sup. Ct. 449, 28 L. Ed. 457.—Internal police. A term sometimes applied to the police power, or power to enact laws in the interest of the pub lic safety, health, and morality, which is in herent in the legislative authority of each state, is to be exercised with reference only to its domestic affairs and its own citizens, and is not surrendered to the federal government. See Cheboygan Lumber Co. v. Delta Transp. Co., 100 Mich. 16, 58 N. W. 630—Internal reve nue. In the legislation and fiscal administra tion of the United States, revenue raised by the imposition of taxes and excises on domestic products or manufactures, and on domestic busi ness and occupations, inheritance taxes, and stamp taxes; as broadly distinguished from "customs duties," •. e., duties or taxes on for eign commerce or on goods imported. See Rev. St. U. S. tit. 35 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2038). —Internal waters. Such as lie wholly with in the body of the particular 'state or countrv. The Garden City (D. C.) 26 Fed. 773. INTERNATIONAL LAW. The law which regulates the intercourse of nations; the law of nations. 1 Kent, Comm. 1, 4. The customary law which determines the rights and regulates the intercourse of inde pendent states in peace and war. 1 Wildm. Int. Law, 1. The system of rules and principles, founded on treaty, custom, precedent, and the con sensus of opinion as to justice and moral obligation, which civilized nations recognize as binding upon them in their mutual deal ings and relations. Heirn v. Bridault, 37 Miss. 230; U. S. v. White (C. C.) 27 Fed. 201. Public international law is the body of rules which control the conduct of independ ent states in their relations with each other. Private international law is that branch of municipal law which determines before the courts of what nation a particular action or suit should be brought, and by the law of what nation it should be determined; in other words, it regulates private rights as dependent on a diversity of municipal laws and jurisdictions applicable to the persons, facts, or things in dispute, and the subject of it is hence sometimes called the "conflict of laws." Thus, questions whether a given person owes allegiance to a particular state where he is domiciled, whether his status, property, rights, and duties are governed by the lex sit Us, the lex loci, the lex fori, or the lex domicilii, are questions with which pri vate international law has to deal. Sweet; Roche v. Washington, 19 Ind. 55, 81 Am. Dec. 376. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE. See COMMERCE.