arbitrament

English

Etymology

From Middle English arbitrament, from Old French arbitrement. By surface analysis, arbiter +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɑːˈbɪtɹəmənt/

Noun

arbitrament (countable and uncountable, plural arbitraments)

  1. The judgement of an arbiter or arbitrator; an arbitration.
    • 1846, George Spence, The Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, page 545:
      […] thus a joint submission to arbitrament may be taken severally in respect of the severalty of the causes.
    • 1889, Brotherhood of Liberty, Justice and Jurisprudence:
      They assert that the right may be given by the Fourteenth Amendment but the remedy can be refused by the public, and as we understand Hall and DeCuir, the courts of civil jurisdiction have only the office of affirming their discretionary arbitrament, as the Supreme Court did in that celebrated cause.

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