The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Dictionary of the Definitions of Terms Used in Connexion with the Theory and Practice of Insurance in All Its Branches: a Biographical Summary ... a Bibliographical Repertory of All Works Written Upon the Subject ... an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance ...C. and E. Layton, 1871 - Insurance |
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... prob . to the solution of the question of the time after which an absent person may be reputed as dead . Our law now holds that where a person has not been heard of for seven years , he is presumed to be dead . [ DEATH , PROOF OF ...
... prob . to the solution of the question of the time after which an absent person may be reputed as dead . Our law now holds that where a person has not been heard of for seven years , he is presumed to be dead . [ DEATH , PROOF OF ...
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... prob . , especially as connected with the duration of human life . We propose here to give a chronological list of Tables answering more particularly to the last definition ; adding such observations as seem essential . We believe no ...
... prob . , especially as connected with the duration of human life . We propose here to give a chronological list of Tables answering more particularly to the last definition ; adding such observations as seem essential . We believe no ...
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... prob . to the affairs of life . The classes of problems with which he has to deal embrace all monetary questions that involve a consideration of the separate or combined effect of int . and prob . An actuary is now regarded as a ...
... prob . to the affairs of life . The classes of problems with which he has to deal embrace all monetary questions that involve a consideration of the separate or combined effect of int . and prob . An actuary is now regarded as a ...
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... prob . of living a year at the various ages thence deduced is very far from conforming to our ideas of what an exponent of the law of mort . ought to be . Instead of a series exhibiting throughout its extent a gradual and progressive ...
... prob . of living a year at the various ages thence deduced is very far from conforming to our ideas of what an exponent of the law of mort . ought to be . Instead of a series exhibiting throughout its extent a gradual and progressive ...
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... prob . a corruption of Laganum maris , lagan being a right in the middle ages , like jetson and flotsam , by which the goods thrown from a vessel in distress became the property of the king or the lord on whose shores they were stranded ...
... prob . a corruption of Laganum maris , lagan being a right in the middle ages , like jetson and flotsam , by which the goods thrown from a vessel in distress became the property of the king or the lord on whose shores they were stranded ...
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accident actuary advantages agents amalg amount annuities appears applied Asso Assu assured authorized cap average bills births Bottomry Breslau Bristol Brit BRITISH burials calculated claims commenced connexion considerable contract Court Court of Chancery death deduced directors diseases Doctrine of Chances England Equitable estab females fire fire engines founded Francis Baily fund given granted hist inst insured interest lives loan Lond loss males Marine maritime marriages merchants nominees Northampton Norwich Union Ordin orig paid Parcieux parishes Parl payable payment period persons policies practice prem present principle prob profits proportion proposed prosp purchase rate of int rate of mort regarded regis risk says scheme Scotland shareholders shares ship subs table of mort term Tontine trans usury valuation values of annu Vict voyage
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Page 33 - to proceed upon all and all manner of captures, seizures, prizes, and reprisals, of all ships and goods, that are, or shall be, taken; and to hear and determine, according to the course of the Admiralty, and the law of nations.
Page 55 - ... all other perils, losses, and misfortunes that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises and ship, &c., or any part thereof...
Page 368 - The company shall keep a book, to be called the " Register of Shareholders ;" and in such book shall be fairly and distinctly entered, from time to time, the names of the several corporations, and the names and additions of the several persons entitled to shares in the company, together with the number of shares to which such shareholders shall be respectively entitled, distinguishing each share by its number, and the amount of the subscriptions paid on such shares, and...
Page 58 - ... office of the company not later than seven days after the date of the meeting at which such special resolution was passed...
Page 12 - ... policy of insurance against accident ; and the expression " policy of insurance against accident " means a policy of insurance for any payment agreed to be made upon the death of any person only from accident or violence or otherwise than from a natural cause, or as compensation for personal injury...
Page 49 - Association contracted before the time at which he ceases to be a Member, and of the costs, charges, and expenses of winding up the same, and for the adjustment of the rights of the contributories amongst themselves...
Page 58 - Act, 1845, with respect to the settlement of disputes by arbitration, shall be incorporated with this Act ; and in the construction of such provisions this Act shall be deemed to be the special Act, and "the company...
Page 283 - Certain necessary directions as well for the cure of the Plague as for Preventing the Infection.
Page 181 - But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons
Page 118 - An act for better securing certain powers and privileges intended to be granted by his Majesty by two charters for assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea, and for lending money upon bottomry, and for restraining several extravagant and unwarrantable practices therein mentioned...