Umpire
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
A person selected by two or more arbitrators, when they are authorised to do so by the submission of the parties, and they cannot.agree as to the subject-matter referred to them, whose duty it is to decide the matter in dispute. Sometimes the term is applied to a single arbitrator selected by the parties themselves.
Kyd on Awards, 6,75, 77; Caldw. on Arb. 38; Dane’s Ab. Index, h. t.; 3 Vin. Ab. 93; Com. Dig. Arbitrament, F.