Interdiction

In civil law

A judicial decree, by which a person is deprived of the exercise of his civil rights. The condition of the party who labors under this incapacity. INTERDICTUM SALVIANUM (Lat.) In civil law. The Salvian interdict. A process which lay for the owner of a farm to obtain possession of the goods of his tenant who INTERDUM EVENIT UT EXCEPTIO quae prima facie justa videtur, tamen inique noceat. It sometimes happens that a plea which seems prima facie just, nevertheless is injurious and unequal.

Inst. 4. 14; Id. 4. 14. 1. 2.

INTER ESSE (Lat.) The interest of money, as distinguished from the principal. An interest in land. INTERESSE TERMINI (Lat.) An interest in the term. The demise of a term in land does not vest any estate in the lessee, but gives him a mere right of entry on the land, which right is called his interest in the term, or interesse termini.

See Co. Litt. 46; 2 Bl. Comm. 144; 10 Viner, Abr. 348; Dane, Abr. Index; Watk. Conv. 15; 1 Washb. Real Prop. Index.