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Union of India - Section

Section 2 in The Arbitration Act, 1940

2. Definitions .-In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-

(a)"arbitration agreement" means a written agreement to submit present or future differences to arbitration, whether an arbitrator is named therein or not;
(b)"award" means an arbitration award;
(c)"Court" means a Civil Court having jurisdiction to decide the questions forming the subject-matter of the reference if the same had been the subject-matter of a suit, but does not, except for the purpose of arbitration proceedings under section 21, include a Small Cause Court;
(d)"legal representative" means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person, and includes any person who intermeddles with the estate of the deceased, and, where a party acts in a representative character, the person on whom the estate devolves on the death of the party so acting;
(e)"reference" means a reference to arbitration.