Intervene

in-tgr-ven', v. [-vened (-vend'), -ven- ing.] To come or be between persons or things to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events to happen in a way to disturb, cro , or interrupt to interpose or undertake an action voluntarily for another. [F. intervenir, L. inter venire, -ventum, fr. inter and venire = E. come.] — Intervener, n. — Intervention, vSn's hun, n. Act of intervening interposition interference that may affect the interests of others, — esp. of one or more states with the affairs of another. (Civil Law.) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. [F. L. intervention