Interlocutory
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Something which Is done between the commencement and the end of a suit or action which decides some point or matter, which, however, is not a final decision of the matter in issue: as, interlocutory judgments, or decrees, or orders. The term seems to have originated with Lord Ellesmere; 1 Holdsw.
Hist. E. L. 213.
See Decbee; Judgment; Obdeb; Injunction.