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.