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INTERLOCUTORY Definition & Legal Meaning

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Provisional; temporary ; not final. Something intervening between the commencement and the end of a suit which decides some point or matter, but is not a final decision of the whole controversy. Mora v. Sun Mut. Ins. Co., 13 Abb. Prac. (N. Y.) 310. As to interlocutory “Costs,” “Decree,” “Judgment,” “Order,” and “Sentence,” see those titles.

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