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Interlocutory   Listen
adjective
Interlocutory  adj.  
1.
Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational. "Interlocutory discourses in the Holy Scriptures."
2.
(Law) Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action; as, an interlocutory judgement. Note: An order, sentence, decree, or judgment, given in an intermediate stage between the commencement and termination of a cause, is called interlocutory.






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"Interlocutory" Quotes from Famous Books



... Emergency Court alone was permitted to enjoin regulations or orders of OPA, and even it could enjoin such orders only after finding that the order was not in accordance with law, or was arbitrary or capricious. The Emergency Court was expressly denied power to issue temporary restraining orders or interlocutory decrees; and in addition the effectiveness of any permanent injunction it might issue was to be postponed for thirty days. If review was sought in the Supreme Court by certiorari, effectiveness was to be postponed until final disposition. A unanimous court speaking through Chief Justice ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin



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