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Point VI. On Settlement and Arbitration

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To aleatory contracts can in some way be reduced settlement and arbitration.

I. Settlement is a contract by which parties end a lawsuit that has arisen, or forestall one that is imminent, by cession, promise, or retention of some thing. Its form is determined by civil law.

Settlement and Arbitration

958.

II. Arbitration is a contract by which parties agree that a lawsuit that has arisen or is imminent be ended through arbitrators. Its form is to be considered in civil law.

Settlement and Arbitration