A messenger between two parties; a go-between. Applied .to a broker, as the agent of both parties. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 204. … [Read more...]

In the civil law. The act by which, in consequence ot an agreement, the party bound declares that he will not be bound beyond a certain time. Wolff, Inst Nat … [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...]