KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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INTERVENTION

INTERROGATORIES

pooling of freights, etc., requiring schedules of rates to be published, establishing a commission to carry out the measures enacted, and prescrib ing the powers and duties of such commission and the procedure before it— Interstate com merce 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 af fected, to enforce the law, to receive, investi gate, and determine complaints made to them of any violation of the act, make annual reports, hold stated sessions, eta— Interstate extradi tion. The reclamation and surrender, accord ing 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.— Inter state law. That branch of private interna tional law which affords rules and principles for the determination of controversies between citi zens 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. An intervener Is a per son who voluntarily interposes in an action or other proceeding with the leave of the court. INTERVENING DAMAGES. See DAM AGES. Intervention is such an interference between two or more states as may (accord ing to the event) result in a resort to force; while mediation always is, and is intended to be and to continue, peaceful only. ' Interven tion between a sovereign and his own sub jects is not justified by anything in inter national law; but a remonstrance may be addressed to the sovereign in a proper case. Brown. In English ecclesiastical law. The pro ceeding of a third person, who, not being originally a party to the suit or proceeding, but claiming an interest in the subject-mat ter in dispute, in order the better to protect such interest, interposes his claim. 2 Chit. Pr. 492; 3 Chit. Commer. Law, 633; 2 Hagg. Const. 137; 3 Phillim. Ecc. Law, 586. In the civil law. The act by which a third party demands to be received as a party in a suit pending between other per sons. 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 ac tion by which a third person is permitted by the court to make himself a party, either joining the plaintiff in claiming what is sought by the complaint, or uniting with the defendant in resisting the claims of the plain- INTERVENER. INTERVENTION. In international law.

equity, a garnishee, or a witness whose testi mony is taken on deposition; a series of formal written questions used in the judicial examination of a party or a witness. In tak ing evidence on depositions, the interroga tories 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 be half of the party calling a witness; the latter are those which are interposed by the ad verse party. Lat. Interruption. A term used both in the civil and common law of prescription. Calvin. Interruptio multiplex non tollit prse scriptionem semel obtentam. 2 Inst. 654. Frequent interruption does not take away a prescription once secured. The occurrence of some act or fact, during the period of pre scription, 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 v. Mims, 1 Ala. 674; Carr v. Foster, 3 Q. B. 58S; Flight v. Thomas, 2 Adol. & 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 pre scription. Bell. The point of inter section of two roads is the point where their middle lines intersect. In re Springfield Road, 73 Pa. 127. Between two or more states; between places or persons in differ ent states; concerning or affecting two or more states politically or territorially. —Interstate commerce. Traffic, intercourse, commercial trading, or the transportation of persons or property between or among the sev eral 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. 194, 6 L. Ed. 23; Wabash, etc. R. Co. v. Illinois, 118 U. S. 557, 7 Sup. Ct. 4, 30 L. Ed. 244; Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Railroad Com'rs (C. C.) 19 Fed. 701.— Interstate com merce aet. The act of congress of February 4, 1887 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3154), design ed 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, INTERRUPTIO. INTERRUPTION. INTERSECTION. INTERSTATE.