interlocution

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INTERLOCU'TION, noun [Latin interlocutio; inter and locutio, loquor, to speak.] 1. Dialogue; conference; interchange of speech. 2. In law, an intermediate act or decree before final decision.
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