from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
MISCONDUCT. Unlawful behaviour by a person entrusted in any degree: with the
administration of justice, by which the rights of the parties and the
justice of the, case may have been affected.
2. A verdict will be set aside when any of the jury have been guilty of
such misconduct, and a court will set aside an award, if it has been
obtained by the misconduct of an arbitrator. 2 Atk. 501, 504; 2 Chit. R. 44;
1 Salk. 71; 3 P. Wms. 362; 1 Dick. 66.