Interpreter

One employed to make a translation. An interpreter should be sworn before he translates the testimony of a witness; In re Norberg, 4 Mass. 81. A person employed between an attorney and a client to act as interpreter is considered merely as the organ between them, and is not bound to testify as to what he has acquired in those confidential communications; Andrews v. Solomon, Pet. C. C. 356, Fed. Cas. No. 378; Jackson v. French, 3 Wend. (N. Y.) 337, 20 Am. Dec. 699. Conversations carried on through an interpreter may be shown by either party thereto or a third person who hears it, its weight only and not its competency being affected thereby; Com. v. Vose, 157 Mass. 393, 32 N. E. 355, 17 L. R. A. 813.