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Foreign awards

Foreign awards. The (English) Arbitration (Foreign Awards) Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 15), provides for the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards subject to certain conditions....

A controversy 1886 93 between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum A court of arbitration meeting in Paris in 1893 decided against the claim of the United States but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal...

Debt

Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it was generally founded on some contract alleged to have taken place between the parties, or on some matter of fact from which the law would imply a contract between them. This was debt in the debet, which was the principal and only common form. There is another species mentioned in the books, called debt in the detinet, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. An action of debt as a technical term is now obsolete. See PLEADINGS. The order of the payment of debts and expenses out of legal assets in an ordinary administration action in the Chancery Division of the High Court is as follows:-1. Funeral expenses, which in the case of an insolvent estate must be strictly reasonable and necessary only, the executor or administrator being personally liabl...

De arbitratione facta, Writ of

De arbitratione facta, Writ of, issued when an action was brought for a cause already settled by arbitration. A writ for enforcing a judgment of arbitrators....

arbitrage

arbitrage [French, literally, arbitration, decision-making] 1 : the purchase of a security, commodity, or foreign currency in one market for the purpose of immediately selling it at a higher price in another market 2 : the purchase of the stock of a takeover target esp. for the purpose of selling it to the raider for a profit ...

arbitral

arbitral : of or relating to arbitrators or arbitration ...

compulsory

compulsory 1 : required or compelled by law : mandatory obligatory [ arbitration] [ insurance] ;specif : required to be brought or asserted in a pleading because of having arisen from the transaction or occurrence that is the subject of litigation [a counterclaim] [ reconvention] compare elective, permissive 2 : using compulsion : compelling [ measures] com·pul·so·ri·ly [-sə-rə-lē] adv ...

opening statement

opening statement : a statement to the jury by trial counsel before the presentation of evidence that usually explains the nature of the case, the factual matters to be proven, and the evidence to be presented and that summarizes the arguments to be made ;also : a similar statement made to the presiding authority (as an arbitrator) at a nonjudicial or quasi-judicial hearing (as an arbitration hearing) ...

vacatur

vacatur [Medieval Latin, it is made null and void] : vacation [sought of the arbitration award] ...

voluntary

voluntary 1 a : proceeding from one's own free choice or consent rather than as the result of duress, coercion, or deception [a statement] b : not compelled by law : done as a matter of choice or agreement [ arbitration] c : made freely and with an understanding of the consequences [a plea of guilty] 2 : done by design or intention 3 : made without valuable consideration or for nominal consideration [a conveyance] vol·un·tar·i·ly [vÄ -lən-ter-ə-lē] adv vol·un·tar·i·ness n ...

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