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\li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 [CIVIL JURISDICTION.] \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 [ACTION NO. 89, 1922.] \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 FREDERICK BENJAMIN SPAETH}{ \i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 v. }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 ARTHUR HERBERT HALLEN. \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 1924, }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 April}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 15.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }{\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid1667356 Award. Leave to enforce motion for award did not find that the plaintiff was entitled to recover from the defendant any specific amount nor was there any direction for payment by the defendant to the plaintiff: it went no further than a valuation. \par \par }{\i\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid1667356 Held}{\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid1667356 , }{\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12418966\charrsid1667356 award cannot b}{ \fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid1667356 e enforced against defendant on motion -}{\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12418966\charrsid1667356 }{\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid1667356 award affords right of action only. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 \par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 Sir ALFRED YOUNG, C.J.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 This is a motion by the plaintiff for a declaration that the Award dated the 11th day of March, 1924, and filed on the 22nd day of April, 1924 , has the same force and effect for all purposes as a judgment in the action, and for leave to enforce the said award in the same manner as a judgment or order and for an order that the defendant p}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 ay to the plaintiff the sum of \'a3}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 4,200 5}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 s.}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 0}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 d.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 , the amount o f the award with costs of the application. \par \par Under the provisions of Rule 363 of the Rules of}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 the}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 Supreme Court, 1876, either party may file an Award in Court, and the awa}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 rd shall thereupon have the same}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 force and effect for all purposes as a judgment. The plaintiff has filed an Award and approached the defendant with a view of payment, the defendant in reply alleges that the Award is only a finding of the valuation of the buildings, &c., at the date of the termination of the lease, and does not decide that he has to pay any sum of money and that the Award although }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid10490621 filed}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 does not operate as a judgment in the action for the amou}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 n}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 t of the valuation (see correspondence annexed to affidavit of the 6th May, 1924).}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 \par In consequence of this correspondence the plaintiff now moves the Court for an order in term}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 s of the motion. The}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 question to my mind is, if the filing of the Award pursuant to Rule 363 is not adequate authority to enforce }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 the award against the defendant,}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 can the plaintiff do so in the manner he now seeks.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 \par The provisions of the rule seem to me to take the place of the procedure necessary under the Common Law Procedure Act 1854 and under the Arbitration Act }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid10490621 1}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10490621\charrsid10490621 88}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid10490621 9}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 . Under those acts the authority of a Judge or the leave of the Court is a condition precedent to enforcing an award; or in certain }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10490621 c}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 ircumstances under section 17 of the Common Law Procedure Act a rule of Court is required; such a step is not necessary under our Rule 363.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 \par The award is contained in clause 8 of the award; it reads:- \par \par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid10490621 I award that the valuation of the buildings growing crops and stock and implements which were upon the land demised by the lease registered in the Register of Lease Book 34, folio 34, on the first day of July, 1922, and wer e agreed to be purchased by the said Arthur Herbert Hallen from the said Frederick Benjamin Spaeth in the sum of \'a34,200 5}{\i\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid10490621 s.}{ \fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid10490621 0}{\i\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid10490621 d.}{\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid10490621 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 The details then follow as to how that sum is arrive}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid550378 d at. In this case the Award do}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 es not find that the plaintiff is}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 entitled to recover from the defendant any amount, nor is there any direction for payment by the defendant to the plaintiff}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 ;}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 it goes no further than a valuation of the buildings, crops, implements, and stock which were agreed to be purchased by the defendant from the plaintiff on the termination of the lease.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 \par Mr. Ellis }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 of counsel for the plaintiff in}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 support of the motion cites the case of }{ \b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 Bowen v. Bowen}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 , 31 L.J., Q.B., p. 193, in that case the Award found that the plaintiff was entitled to recover a certain sum from the defendant; and although it}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 contained no direction to the defendant to pay the plaintiff the amount, the Court }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid550378 o}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid550378 n motion}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 for a rule to pay money pursuant to the Award made the rule absolute on the ground that although the Award contained no express d irection to pay the Award found that the plaintiff in the case was entitled to recover a certain sum from the defendant, and that assumpsit debt might be brought upon it.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 \par Mr. Mann of counsel }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid550378 submits that the Court cannot o}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 n this application alter or amend the Award; and here I am in agreement with him, if the award cannot be enforced under Rule 3}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid550378 6}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 3, the Court has no power on motion to order judgment to be entered on the Award, nor to turn an Award into a judgment (see per Fletcher Moulton, L.J., }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 re a Bankruptcy Notice}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 , 1907, 1 K.B. 478).}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 \par Now, apart from the foregoing examination of the arguments on the motion, and the conclusions I have come to, did not their Lordships of the Privy Council in their judgment indicate that the submission to arbitration should be no more than a valuation? I think so. The part of their judgment to which I refer reads as follows:-}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 \par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid550378 The lease provides that the purchase is to take place on valuat ion, and that if the parties cannot agree on the valuation all matters in difference thereto are to be referred to arbitration, the arbitration to be subject to the provisions of the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854. Their Lordships interpret this as meanin g that the amount of the valuation is to be such as may be determined in an arbitration. For the}{\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid550378\charrsid550378 n and not until then does a sum}{ \fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid550378 , which has to be ascertained in that fashion, become due and capable of affording a right of action. The determination of this s um is not a matter of independent right for which a claimant can go to the Courts. He is entitled only to what the arbitrators award. If this construction be the true one it brings the case within the principle of }{ \b\i\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid550378 Scott v. Avery}{\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid550378 (5 H.L.C. 811), which decid ed that while by the Common Law parties could not contract validly to oust the Courts of their jurisdiction, they could contract that no right of action should accrue until a third person had decided th}{ \fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid550378\charrsid550378 e amount to which there was to b}{\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid550378 e a right. This is a p rinciple from which there is no derogation in the Common Law Procedure Act. \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15019166 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 \par The amount of the valuation has now been determined by arbitration, and the sum so as}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 certained becomes in their Lords}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 hip}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 s'}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 words "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 d}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 ue and capable of affording a right of action." \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15019166\charrsid15019166 The motion is dismissed with costs. \par }}