Interpreter

One employed to make a translation. An interpreter should be sworn before he translates the testimony of a witness.

4 Mass. 81; 5 Mass. 219; 2 Caines (N. Y.) 166.

A person employed between an attorney and 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.

1 Pet. C. C. (U. S.) 356; 4 Munf. (Va.) 273; 3 Wend. (N. Y.) 337.

INTERREGNUM (Lat.) The period, in case of an established government, which elapses between the death of a sovereign and the election of another, is called "interregnum." The vacancy which occurs when there is no government.