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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.