Mediator
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
One who interposes between two contending parties, with their consent, for the purpose of assisting them in settling their differences. Sometimes this term is applied to an officer who is appointed by a sovereign nation to promote the settlement of disputes between two other nations. See "Minister."
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
One who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them.
— Mediators of questions. In English law. Six persons authorized by statute, (27 Edw. III. St. 2, c. 24,) who, upon any question arising among merchants relating to unmerchantable wool, or undue packing, etc., might, before the mayor and officers of the staple upon their oath certify and settle the same; to whose determination therein the parties concerned were to submit. Cowell.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I. I In old English law. An arbitrator.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
One who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them.