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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

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. v. To grant, concede, adjudge to.

Thus, a jury awards damages; the court awards an injunction.

Starkey v. Minneapolis, 19 Minn. 206 (GiL 166).