Submission

A yielding to authority. A citizen is bound to submit to the laws; a child to his parente.

In practice. A submission is a covenant by which persens who have a lawsuit or dlf-ference with one another name arbitrators to decide the matter, and bind themselves reciprocally to perform what shall be arbitrated. Civ. Code La. art 3099; Garr v. Gomez, 9 Wend. (N. Y.) 661; District of Columbia v. Bailey, 171 U. S. 161, 18 Sup. Ct 868, 43 In Ed. 118; Chorpenning v. U. S., 11 Ct Cl. 628; Shed v. Railroad Co., 67 Mo. 687.

In maritime law. Submission on the part of the vanquished, and complete possession on the part of the victor, transfer property as betwcen belligerents. The Alexander, 1 Gall. 532, Fed. Cas. No. 164.

— Submission bond. The bond by which the parties agree to submit their matters to arbitration, and by which they bind themselves to abide by the award of the arbitrator, is commonly called a "submission bond." Brown.

An agreement by which parties consent to submit differences to arbitration.