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" The contract commonly called Life Assurance, when properly considered, is a mere contract to pay a certain sum of money on the death of a person in. consideration of the due payment of a certain annuity for his life; the amount of the annuity being calculated,... "
The Law of Life Insurance with a Chapter on Accident Insurance - Page 4
by George Bliss - 1874 - 793 pages
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The Practice in Courts of Justice in England and the United States, Volume 2

Conway Robinson - Actions and defenses - 1855 - 884 pages
...buildings, ships and effects ; and on the other hand, the contract commonly called " life assurance," which is a mere contract to pay a certain sum of money on...the due payment of a certain annuity for his life. It was of a policy against marine risks which is in its terms a contract for indemnity only, that Lord...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of ..., Volume 15

Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 590 pages
...COMPANY. Dee. 2. The contract of life-assurance is a mere contract to pay a certain sum of money upon the death of a person in consideration of the due payment of certain annual premiums during his life. It is not a contract of indemnity. Where a policy effected...
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The Insurance Guide and Hand Book: Dedicated Especially to Insurance Agents ...

Cornelius Walford - Insurance agents - 1857 - 456 pages
...a contract of indemnity, as stated by Lord Ellenborough in his judgment in Godsoll r. Boldero, but is a mere contract to pay a certain sum of money on...the due payment of a certain annuity for his life. That such a contract at common law would have been legal, whether the plaintiff (the Anchor Company)...
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Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of England Contained in The English ...

Chauncey Smith - Law - 1859 - 942 pages
...• I. Life Assurance. 1. Principle of life assurance. The contract commonly called life assurance, is a mere contract to pay a certain sum of money on...consideration of the due payment of a certain annuity during his life, and is not a contract of indemnity. Assurances against fire and marine risks are contracts...
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Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of England Contained in The English ...

Chauncey Smith - Law - 1859 - 948 pages
...Assurance. 1. Principle of life assurance. The contract commonly called life assurance, is a шеге contract to pay a certain sum of money on the death...consideration of the due payment of a certain annuity during his life, and is not a contract of indemnity. Assurances against fire and marine risks arc contracts...
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Treatise on Benefit Building Societies and Life Assurance Societies: With ...

Arthur Scratchley - Insurance, Life - 1867 - 440 pages
...delivering his jgment ._" The contract commonly called Life Assurance, •when properly cordered) ;sa mere contract to pay a certain sum of money on the death ota9rson, ln consideration of the due payment of a certain annuity for his lite,^ amonnt Of the annuity...
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American Commercial Law: Relating to Every Kind of Business: with Full ...

Franklin Chamberlin - Commercial law - 1869 - 1004 pages
...says, Parke B., in Dalby vs. The India and London Life Assurance Company, (28 Eng. Law and Eq., 312), commonly called ' life assurance, when properly considered...annuity for his life ; the amount of the annuity being caleulated in the first instance according to the probable duration of the life.' The court added,...
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Principles of the Law of Scotland

John Erskine - Law - 1870 - 730 pages
...that a policy of insurance on life was a mere contract of indemnity, as an entirely false analogy. ' The contract commonly called life assurance, when...the due payment of a certain annuity for his life (meaning the premium), the amount of the annuity being calculated, in the first instance, according...
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The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Dictionary of the Definitions of Terms ...

Cornelius Walford - Insurance - 1873 - 694 pages
...in the case of Dalby v. India and Lend., already spoken of: The contract commonly called L. assu., when properly considered, is a mere contract to pay...certain annuity for his life, — the amount of the annu. being calculated in the first instance according to the prob. duration of the life ; and, when...
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An Epitome of Leading Common Law Cases: With Some Short Notes Thereon ...

John Indermaur - Common law - 1874 - 120 pages
...LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (15 CB 365.) Decided : — (1) That the contract of life assurance is a contract to pay a certain sum of money on the death of a person iu consideration of the due payment of a certain annuity for his life, and that it is not a mere contract...
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