arbitration

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( "UNCITRAL") arbitration proceeding between the Kyrgyz Republic and Oxus, a United Kingdom mining company, constituted a §1782 "foreign or international tribunal" because the arbitration was authorized by the sovereign states of the United Kingdom and the Kyrgyz Republic for purposes of adjudicating disputes under a bilateral treaty.

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  1. noun The process by which the parties to a dispute submit their differences to the judgment of an impartial person or group appointed by mutual consent or statutory provision.

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  • At the time the word arbitration was still a word to conjure with, and many Chicago citizens were convinced, not only of the danger and futility involved in the open warfare of opposing social forces, but further believed that the search for justice and righteousness in industrial relations was made infinitely more difficult thereby. —  20 Years At Hull House
  • What it ruled is that the particular rights consumers were asked to give up had nothing to do with the purpose of arbitration, which is to speed up justice for the little guy, to make it easier for consumers, not to rob them of rights: —  Groklaw
  • If the claims of censorship are true, I really wonder what kind of arbitration or peer-review processes are at work. —  KABOBfest
  • An arbitration is an adversary proceeding, and that requires lawyers and fees and prep time and all of that, and no matter who is footing the bill, an adversary proceeding can be expensive. the Phillies seem to insist upon entering arbitration with their young stars —  The Hardball Times
  • In the arbitration, the Company had pleaded that the BFS was invalid because of the non-disclosure of the lack of airport access necessary to build and operate a mine on the co-owned Property.
 

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  1. from Middle English arbitration, from Old French arbitration = Provencal arbitracio, from Latin arbitratio(n-), from arbitrari, arbitrate, judge: see arbitrate.
 

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/ɑrbɪˈtreɪʃən/
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