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Johnny Veeder Archive of Historic Arbitration Awards & ADR Materials

I. Antiquity

The Odyssey 11.568-571, Homer (ca. 650 B.C.)

The Iliad, Homer, Book XVIII, 497 et seq. (ca. 650 B.C.)

Demosthenes, Against Midias, Section 94, 361 BC

TEXNH PHTOPIKH (Rhetorics by Aristotle), Aristoteles (ca. 329-323 B.C.), Book I, Chapter 13, 1374b19-23

England's Oldest Surviving Arbitral Award (AD 118) with an introduction by Derek Roebuck (Early English Arbitration, 2008, p. 50 et seq.)

Roger Tomlin, A Five-Acre Wood in Roman Kent, in J. Bird, M.W.C. Hassall, H. Sheldon (eds), Interpreting Roman London: Papers in Memory of Hugh Chapman (Oxford 1996), p. 209 et seq.

Tillus Sassius v Muncipality of Histonium (AD 19) with an introduction by Derek Roebuck ('Roman Arbitration', 2004, p. 181 et seq.)

The Bible, 1st Kings (Judgment of King Salomon), Chapter 3, Vers 16-18

Corpus iuris civilis

II. Middle Ages

Shepard, James W.,The Rôles d'Oléron- A Lex Mercatoria of the Sea?, in Piergiovanni, Vito (ed), From Lex Mercatoria to commercial law (2005), S. 207 et seq. (ca. 1200)

Papal Bull of 1208, The acts of the Parliament of Scotland, Vol. 1, 1844, p. 391 et seq.

"Kleine Schied" and "Vorausschied" (Small and Preliminary Award), both rendered by Albertus Magnus in 1252

"Großer Schied" ("Great Award") of June 28, 1258 rendered by Albertus Magnus

The Re-establishment of peace between Henry, the king of England, and the barons of his realm, Award made at 23 January 1264

Siete Partidas, Partida III, Título IV, Ley XXIII, written between June 26, 1256 and August 28, 1265

Acta Del Compromiso De Caspe, June 25, 1412

Charters of the Abbey of Coupar Angus, Vol. II, Charter CXXIV (No. 124), 22 April 1418

Historic Scottish Arbitration Act 1426

Edit de Fontainebleau, August 1560.

The Rape of Lucrece, William Shakespeare, 1594

III. Modern Times

Undated letter (around 1600) to Sir Nathaniel Bacon

Vynior's Case, 8 Co. Rep. 81 b. et seq. (1609)

Regiam Majestatem Scotiæ veteres leges et constitutione, liber secundus, de iudiciis (Scottish Law Books, Vol. 2), 1609

Malynes, Gerard, Consuetudo, Vel Lex Mercatoria or The Ancient Law-Merchant (1st. ed., 1622)

Malynes, Gerard, Consuetudo, Vel Lex Mercatoria or The Ancient Law-Merchant (1st. ed., 1622), Chapther XV (with notes: 9(3) Arb. Int'l 323 (1993)).

Anthony Gibson against Edward Ferrers (Court decision on an Award rendered by Gerard Malynes in December 1623. Introduction by Derek Roebuck), (1996) 62 Arbitration 12 et seq.

A court, holden att Boston, November 7^th, 1632, Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts bay in New England. Printed by order of the legislature (1853), at p. 101 et seq.

Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674

Peace of Westphalia 1646-1648

Emperor Kangxi (1661-1722) on arbitration in: Huc, Evariste Régis, A Journey Through the Chinese Empire, 1856, p. 124f.

The Duke of York’s Laws for the government of the Colony of New York, 1665-1675

Historic English Arbitration Act 1698

The Arbitration Provision in the Great Peace of Montreal (August 4, 1701)

Bond and arbitration order in dispute between Mary Gyde of Rodborough, wid., and Sam. Merrick of Bristol, woollen draper, 1747

Letter to the N.Y. Weekly Post Boy, 20th of May 1751, Three Centuries of Commercial Arbitration in New York: A Brief Survey, William Carton Jones, Washington University Law Review, Volume 1956, Issue 2, at Page 193 et seq.

James Watt and Andrew Aitken Judges Arbiter in the cause Dalzell v Baxter and Hood, [undated, ca. 1769]

Kyd, S., A Treatise on the Law of Awards (1st ed. 1791), at p. 2-5

Swift, Zephaniah, A System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut, Volume II, at p. 7-10 (1796)

Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannick Majesty; and The United States of America, by Their President, with the advice and consent of Their Senate (Jay Treaty)

Arbitration clause in The Will of George Washington (Transcription), 1799

Boretts v. Patterson, Tay. 37, 1 N.C. 126 (N.C.Super.L. & Eq.), 1799 WL 125 (N.C.Super.L. & Eq.))

Treaty of Peace and Amity between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America (The Treaty of Ghent), signed on December 24, 1814 in the Flemish city of Ghent

Arbitral Award of October 27, 1832 concerning the estate of Simon Bolívar

Earliest reference to mediation in South Africa of April 1, 1837

Daniel Harmer v William Errington Bell and Others ("In Rem Jurisdiction of English Admiralty Courts") 13 E.R. 884 (1851)

Handwritten testimonial of August 14, 1863 by Captain Semmes to the excellence of the services of the firm who supplied the Alabama during her stay in Cape Town

Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, 1871 (Washington Treaty)

Alabama Claims Arbitration 1872, in John Bassett Moore (ed.), History and Digest of the International Arbitrations to which the United States has been a Party, 1898

Laws of New York 1874, Chap. 278, April 29 1874

Sir Alexander Cockburn's dissenting opinion in the Alabama Claims Arbitration of September 14th, 1872

Arbitration Bond (i.e. Agreement) and Award, 1878

Ad Hoc-Award of October 27, 1883, Owners of M/S Parthenia (Mssrs. Houlder Bros and Co.) v. The Executors of the Late Ralph Firbank

A Letter to the Times, 11th of August 1892, Sources for the History of Arbitration - A Bibliographical Introduction, Derek Roebuck, Arbitration International Volume 14 Number 3, at Page 237 et seq.

France v. Venezuela: Award of the President of the Swiss Confederation in the Case of Fabiani (30th Dec. 1896), in: Moore, John Bassett, History and Digest of the International Arbitrations to which the United States has been a Party, Washington 1898, Vol. V, at p. 4878

Ad Hoc-Award of March 29, 1900, Great Britain & United States v. Portugal, The National Archives (PRO) FO 881/7637X and FO 03/77/57

The Pious Fund of the Californias, The United States of America vs. The United Mexican States, Permanent Court of Arbitration, 14. October 1902

Vertrag zwischen dem Deutschen Reich und der Union der Sozialisitischen Sowjet-Republiken vom 12. Oktober 1925 (Deutsch-Russischer Handelsvertrag 1925), RGBL. II 1926 at p. 2 et seq.

German-Russian Economic Protocol, 21. December 1928, RGBl. II 1929 at p. 53 et seq.

Re Polemis, [1931] 4(2) Cambridge Law Journal 125

Lena Goldfields v. Soviet Government, Award of 2nd Sept 1930, German original text previously unpublished; English translation: 36 Cornell Law Quarterly (1950/1951), at 42 et seq.

Goldman, Berthold, Le Monde ( 4th Oct. 1956 ), p. 3

Affaire relative à la concession des phares de l’Empire ottoman (Grèce, France), 24/27 July 1956, in: RECUEIL DES SENTENCES ARBITRAL, VOLUME XII pp. 165-269

Dawson's Field and Cairo Excess Loss Reinsurances, April 1972 (Award by Michael R.E. Kerr, QC)

Final settlement of the dispute between the Swiss Cantons of Zurich and Saint-Gall regarding cultural goods transferred from Saint-Gall to Zurich during the Battles of Villmergen (27 April 2006)

Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement 6th December 2007 (Tripartite Agreement between the Tsawwassen First Nation, Canada and the Province of British Columbia)

Bernardini, Piero, Adaption of Contracts, in: Sanders (ed.), ICCA Congress ser. no. 1, Deventer 1983, at 211 et seq. Test

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