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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Applied to a controversy, means to place it before a tribunal for determination. Submission: the act or agreement of parties placing a controversy before a tribunal for its determination. Thus, counsel sometimes agree to submit a cause without argument; the New York code provides for a submission of controversies without action. These words are particularly used of agreement of parties to a question of difference, that they will leave it to arbitrators for determination. That an agreement " to submit " a creditor's claim on a decedent estate imports, presumably, an arbitration rather than a Submission bond. The bond by which the parties agree thus to submit their matters to arbitration, and by which they bind themselves to abide by the award of the arbitrator, is commonly called a submission bond.