A TREATISE

ON THE

POWER AND DUTY

OF AN

ARBITRATOR,

AND THE LAW OF

SUBMISSIONS AND AWARDS;

WITH AN

APPENDIX OF FORMS, AND OF THE STATUTES RELATING TO
ARBITRATION.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY G, J. PALMER, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

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THE RIGHT HONORABLE

THOMAS LORD DENMAN,

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF The court oF QUEEN'S BENCH,

IN TOKEN OF THE

AUTHOR'S SINCERE RESPECT AND ESTEEM,

THIS WORK IS, BY PERMISSION,

DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

SOME years ago it occurred to the author that a book written with a view to elucidate the extent of the powers and duties of an Arbitrator, would be useful. The valuable works then existing on the subject of awards did not seem addressed exactly to that object; and since the publication of the then latest of them, a large number of cases relating to arbitration had been decided in the courts. Under those circumstances, the present work was commenced; and though the author has been anticipated in his expectation of being the first to present the effect of those decisions before the public, he has been encouraged to complete his undertaking, in the belief that there is still room for a work written with the view contemplated above. As a further distinction, and, he trusts, recommendation, he would add, that the following pages embody the substance of important parliamentary enactments not hitherto noticed in works on awards; and, he believes, every case of any interest on the subject of Arbitration up to the end of Michaelmas Term of the present year is referred to in the Treatise or in the Addenda.

Hoping these considerations will relieve him from the charge of presumptuously entering upon ground already fully occupied, he proceeds at once to state the course which he has pursued.