https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165149 An award filed by a party is effective only if done under the umpire's authority; a bare delivery of the original awards to the parties did not prove such authority, so filing under section 14(2) was not established. The awards were first treated as filed in the Gauhati court, because the umpire sent signed copies there earlier than the Calcutta filing, giving Gauhati jurisdiction under section 31(3). Section 31(4) was construed broadly to cover applications made before, during, and after the arbitration, including post-award filing applications, and it vested exclusive jurisdiction in the court where the first reference-related application was made. en-us Thu, 16 Apr 1953 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:17:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165149 An award filed by a party is effective only if done under the umpire's authority; a bare delivery of the original awards to the parties did not prove such authority, so filing under section 14(2) was not established. The awards were first treated as filed in the Gauhati court, because the umpire sent signed copies there earlier than the Calcutta filing, giving Gauhati jurisdiction under section 31(3). Section 31(4) was construed broadly to cover applications made before, during, and after the arbitration, including post-award filing applications, and it vested exclusive jurisdiction in the court where the first reference-related application was made. Case-Laws Companies Law Thu, 16 Apr 1953 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165149