By a Gentleman of the Middle-temple

[Bacon, Matthew] [fl. 1730]. By a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple. The Compleat Arbitrator; or the Law of Awards; Containing plain and easy directions to all kinds of arbitrators; what matters are proper to be submitted to arbitration, and in what manner; the nature and different kinds of submissions, the parties to the submission, the duty and office of arbitrators and umpires; the right manner of making and delivering up awards; how awards have been construed in equity, the manner of making and enforcing the performance of awards, when the submission has been made a rule of court; the right method of setting forth and pleading awards. With precedents of submissions, awards and pleadings in all Cases. [London]: In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, 1731. vi, [6], 308 pp. With a new introduction by Derek Roebuck, Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Reprint available June 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-959-9. ISBN-10: 1-58477-959-4. Cloth. $125.* First edition. This was the first substantial treatise on the subject. (It was preceded by an anonymous 93-page work from 1694.) "It is a good straightforward and up-to-date account of the law. That it was found to be useful is shown by the fact that it reached a third edition in 1770.": Holdsworth, A History of English Law XII:393. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:544(2).