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 … [Read more...]

1. A plea by which a person 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 responsibility. Bennett v. Wolverton, 24 Kan. ,286. See INTERPLEADER. 2. In Missouri, a statutory proceeding serving as a substitute for the action of replevin, by which a third person … [Read more...]

Leave from work that is granted under the Family and Medical Leave act that is staggered instead of continuous but is permissible, e.g. the recurrence of a dangerous condition. … [Read more...]

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 proceeding 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 … [Read more...]

Confusion 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 CONFUSION OF GOODS. … [Read more...]