ABSTRACT

Background. I t is a mistake, often made, to believe that the condit ions o f contract are self-contained. They must on the contrary be read against the background o f a large body o f legal principles and decisions. The most farreaching o f those principles concern the conduct o f the arbi t ra tor and, to a lesser extent, the engineer. The two are grouped together because the engineer has a special role in some cases under the construct ion contract.