Intervene

8 To file a claim or a defense in a suit instituted by or against others. Intervener; intervener. One who applies to be heard as an original party in another's suit, he being interested in the result of the suit. > Lieber, Herm. 23; 14 How. Pr. 272; 36 N. J. L. 209; 1 Bi; Com. 59. ' 2 Pars. Contr., 7 ed., 491 (a). '1 Whart. Ev. §493. <See 3B1. Com. 4-38; 4 id. 287; 5 N. J. L. 773. » See BisohoSEsheim v. Baltzer, 20 Blatch. 231 (1882). • State V. New Haven, &c. E. Co., 45 Conn. 344 (1877). Intervention. The act or proceeding by which one, on his own motion, becomes a party to a suit pending between others: as, in a case in equity or in admiralty. Opposed, non-intervention.