interlocutory

Determining a matter during the course of a case and not part of a final decision.

Consisting in or partaking of the character of dialogue; pertaining to, characterized by, or participating in conversation; conversational: as, interlocutory instruction; an interlocutory encounter.

Spoken intermediately; interjected into the main course of speech; specifically, in law, uttered or promulgated incidentally; not determinative or final in purport: as, an interlocutory argument; an interlocutory order, decree, or judgment (that is, one relating to a particular question or point in a case, but not to the final issue).

In law, intermediately transacted; taking place apart from the main course of a cause.

Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational.

Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action.

Interpolated discussion or dialogue.

Of or pertaining to dialogue or conversation.

Interjected into something spoken.

Expressed during a legal action that awaits final decision.