INTERVENTION

(Lat. inter, and venio, I come,) In Politics, the interposition of one state in the domestic affairs of another. The right of armed intervention is one of the most contested portions of the public law of nations; as, although practised frequently enough by the more powerful with reference to the weak, it had never been regarded otherwise than as a permitted abuse of power until the time of the congre es of Vienna, Laybach, , when it was publicly recognised by the leading cabinets of Europe. [s. 626]