Arbitrator

A private ex- to be one of the United States of traordinary judge chosen by the America, and admitted into the parties who have a matter in dispute, Union on an equal footing with the invested with power to decide the original states in all respects what same. Arbitrators are so called be- ever.: cause they have generally an arbi- ARMS. Any thing that a man trary power, there being in common wears for his defence, or takes in no appeal from their sentences, which his hands, or uses in his anger, to are called awards. Vide Caldw. on cast at or strike at another.

Crompt. Arb. Index, h. t.; Kyd on Awards, Just. P. 65; Cunn. Dict. h. t.

The Index. h. t. Constitution of the United States,