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, 1873 |
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... payment of preference debts , payments to the court , payments to solicitors , payments to official assignees , etc. The gross amount of liabilities was £ 190,000 ; the pro- perty sold realized £ 28,280 ; and the debts collected , 1389 ...
... payment of preference debts , payments to the court , payments to solicitors , payments to official assignees , etc. The gross amount of liabilities was £ 190,000 ; the pro- perty sold realized £ 28,280 ; and the debts collected , 1389 ...
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... payment in exchange for an assignment of their future dividend . Debtors , whose state of affairs and bal . - sheets were completed , and whose creditors had assented to an offer of composition , might have their composition guaranteed ...
... payment in exchange for an assignment of their future dividend . Debtors , whose state of affairs and bal . - sheets were completed , and whose creditors had assented to an offer of composition , might have their composition guaranteed ...
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... payment of any claim made by him in reference to such debtor , and by limiting the liability of the assured to the payment of the prem . and man . commission only . 3. As between the assured themselves , to restrict individual rights ...
... payment of any claim made by him in reference to such debtor , and by limiting the liability of the assured to the payment of the prem . and man . commission only . 3. As between the assured themselves , to restrict individual rights ...
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... payment of a fee ) , respecting the various systems of commercial fraud , the practices and persons of swindlers ... pay down a portion thereof , equal to 2s . 6d , in the pound on such subs . ( unless they prefer to pay any larger part ...
... payment of a fee ) , respecting the various systems of commercial fraud , the practices and persons of swindlers ... pay down a portion thereof , equal to 2s . 6d , in the pound on such subs . ( unless they prefer to pay any larger part ...
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... payment of the debts or liabilities of a debtor in full , or such a rate of com- position in full discharge thereof as an investigation of the estate and assets of such debtor will warrant ; payment to be made by instalments extending ...
... payment of the debts or liabilities of a debtor in full , or such a rate of com- position in full discharge thereof as an investigation of the estate and assets of such debtor will warrant ; payment to be made by instalments extending ...
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accident amount annu apoplexy appears applied asso assu assured average BOTTOMRY Brit bronchitis calculated causes of death Census cholera circumstances condition Consols Consumption contract Coroner Court Court of Chancery Court of Equity damage death-rate deodand deposit diarrhoea died Diphtheria directors diseased lives districts dropsy effect England epidemic estab extra prem fact Farr fatal females fever fire funds given gout held increased inquest inquiry insured jury liable Lond loss males Marine nosology number of deaths occurred orig paid paper payment period persons phthisis plaintiff pol.-holders present principle prob proportion proposed prosp rate of mort rate of prem Reg.-Gen regard regis returns risk says Scotland scrofula shareholders ship smallpox square mile statistics term tontine towns typhus underwriters Vict voyage zymotic diseases
Popular passages
Page 103 - Any contract which if made between private persons would by law be valid although made by parol only, and not reduced into writing, may be made by...
Page 103 - Act may be made as follows ; (that is to say,) (1.) Any contract which if made between private persons would be bylaw required to be in writing, and if made according to English law to be under seal, may be made on behalf of the company in writing under the common seal of the, company...
Page 64 - ... inasmuch as the written words are the immediate language and terms selected by the parties themselves for the expression of their meaning, and the printed words are a general formula adapted equally to their case and that of all other contracting parties upon similar occasions and subjects.
Page 160 - March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty (at 12 o'clock at noon), the said loss or damage to be estimated according to the true and actual cash value of the said property at the time the same shall happen...
Page 185 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 148 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Page 348 - That place shall be considered and held to be the residence of a person in which his habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning.
Page 210 - Majesty, or to any Person marrying a Second Time, whose Husband or Wife shall have been continually absent from such Person for the Space of Seven Years then last past, and shall not have been known by such Person to be living within that Time...
Page 397 - Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: and thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon ; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee...
Page 397 - For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.