Definition of Award

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Award
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    The judgment or decision of an arbitrator, commissioner or referee. See 36 Am. St. Rep. 344.

  • Award
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    n. The decision or determination rendered by arbitrators or commlssion-ers or other private or extrajudicial deciders, upon a controversy submitted to them; also the writing or document embodying such decision. Halnon v. Halnon. 55 Vt 321; Henderson v. Beaton, 52 Tex. 43; Peters v. Peirce, 8 Mass. 398; Benjamin v. U. S., 29 Ct Cl. 417.

  • Award
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    v. To grant, concede, adjudge to. Thus, a jury awards damages; the court awards an injunction. Starkey v. Minneapolis, 19 Minn. 206 (GiL 166).