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interpreting
n : an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious;
"the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he
annoyed us with his interpreting of parables"; "often
imitations are extended to provide a more accurate
rendition of the child's intended meaning" [syn: {interpretation},
{rendition}, {rendering}]
interpreter
INTERPRETER. One employed to make a translation. (q v.)
2. An interpreter should be sworn before he translates the testimony of
a witness. 4 Mass. 81; 5 Mass. 219; 2 Caines' Rep. 155.
3. A person employed between an attorney and client to act as
interpreter, is considered merely as the organ between them, and is not
bound to testify as to what be has acquired in those confidential
communications. 1 Pet. C. C. R.. 356; 4 Munf. R. 273; 1 Wend. R. 337. Vide
Confidential Communications.
conference
CONFERENCE, practice, legislation. In practice, it is the meeting of the
parties or their attorneys in a cause, for the purpose of endeavoring to
settle the same.
2. In legislation, when the senate and house of representatives cannot
agree on a bill or resolution which it is desirable should be passed,
committees are appointed by the two bodies respectively, who are called
committees of conference, and whose duty it is, if possible, to -reconcile
the differences between them.
3. In the French law, this term is used to signify the similarity and
comparison between two laws, or two systems of law; as the Roman and the
common law. Encyclopedie, h.t.
4. In diplomacy, conferences are verbal explanations between ministers
of two nations at least, for the purpose of accelerating various
difficulties and delays, necessarily attending written communications.
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