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Given a compact three manifold, this paper gives a characterization of measured geodesic laminations on the boundary which are the pleating laminations of a geometrically finite hyperbolic structure on the interior. This characterization is given in terms of weights of closed leaves and intersection indices with essential discs and annuli; when the boundary is incompressible or the lamination is supported in a finite number of compact leaves, it has been proved by Bonahon and Otal. The proof given here uses the fact that laminations satisfying the conditions are limits of laminations for which Bonahon-Otal's theorem applies, together with a closeness argument. Among other applications, the author characterizes the discontinuity domain for the action of the mapping class group of a 3-manifold on the space of measured laminations of its boundary. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1032.35005].