Interplead

interplede, enterplede. To settle a question of right to property or money adversely claimed, by litigation between the claimafits, for the security of a third person who holds the property or money, but is in doubt to which party he shall pay or deliver it Jn old English law. To discuss or try a point incidentally arising, before the principal cause can be determined, by making the parties litigate it between them.