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.

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.

A person sworn ata trial to interpret the evidence of a foreigner or a deaf and dumb person to the court.

One who translates the testimony of witnesses speaking a foreign tongue, for the benefit of the court and jury. His re-statement is not hearsay; it may he impeached for inacciu-acy.^

One employed to make a translation, (q. v.). An interpreter should be sworn before he translates the testimony of a witness. 4 Mass. 81; 5 Mass. 219; 2 Caines’s Rep. 155.