TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government Enacted1940

Arbitration Act, 1940 [Repealed] Section 2

Definitions

Section Text


In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,

(a) "arbitration agreement" means a written agreement to submit present future differences to arbitration, whether an arbitrator is named therein or not ;

(b) "award" means an arbitration award;

(c) "Court" means a Civil Court having jurisdiction to decide the questions forming the subject-matter of the reference if the same had been the subject-matter of a suit, but does not, except for the purpose of arbitration proceedings under section 21, include a Small Cause Court;

(d) "legal representative" means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person, and includes any person who intermeddles with the estate of the deceased, and, where a party acts in a representative character, the person on whom the estate devolves on the death of the party so acting ;

(e) "reference" means a reference to arbitration.