interpleadv.

1357 Pat. Roll 30 Edw. III, Hilary (1585) 5 b A certein iour en propre persone denterpleder pur le garde de corps.]

a1558 W. Stanford Expos. Kinges Prerog. (1567) xvi. f. 57 Forasmuche as the kinge is brought in doubt to whiche of them his hyghnesse maye make liuerie, they therefore muste firste enterplede, and when by enterpleder the priuitie of the bloode is tried beetweene them, then his highnesse oughte to make the liuerye to him that is tryed to bee the nexte heire.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Enterplede, signifies to discuss or try a Point incidentally falling out, before the Principal Cause can be determined.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxvii. 448 There is likewise a bill of interpleader; where a person who owes a debt or rent to one of the parties in suit, but, till the determination of it, he knows not to which, desires that they may interplead, that he may be safe in the payment.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon at Interpleader The ordinary decree is, that the defendants do interplead, and the plaintiff then withdraws from the suit.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 245 So that for bewilder'd Arians to interplead their near related Sabellian Labyrinths, is but the despairing shifts of wilful obstinacy and reprobate ignorance.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. E3 No interpleading was there of opposite occasions, but backe I must returne.

1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 335 In euery enterpleading, an office must bee found for both. And if one be found heire of full age, and after another within age, the enterpleading shall not stay till the full age of the second, because the other was found heire first.

1837 Ld. Cottenham in Mylne & Craig Rep. II. 21 That rule, if in favour of the interpleading, would not be decisive.

1837 Ld. Cottenham in Mylne & Craig Rep. II. 22 Sir John Leach..refused an injunction in an interpleading suit by a broker.