Arbitrator
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In practice
A private extraordinary judge, to whose decision matters in controversy are referred by consent of the parties. Worcester. "Reference" is of frequent modern use as a synonym of "arbitrator," but is in its origin of broader signification, and less accurate than arbitrator.
ARBITRIMENTUM AEQUUM TRIBUIT cuique suum
A just arbitration renders to every one his own.
Noy, Max. 248.
ARBITRIUM (Lat.) Decision; award; judgment. ment of sound men.
1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 61.
The decision of an arbiter is arbitrium, as the etymology indicates, and the word denotes, in the passage cited, the decision of a man of good judgment who is not controlled by technical rules of law, but is at liberty to adapt the general principles of justice to the peculiar circumstances of the case.