A Treatise On The Law Relating To The Insurance Of Freight

Author : George Maitland Lazarus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333558048
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on the Law Relating to the Insurance of Freight (Classic Reprint) written by George Maitland Lazarus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law Relating to the Insurance of Freight A century ago - according to a report in 2 Dow's Report, page 479 - those who had been most concerned in settling what was the law on the subject of marine insurance had taken great credit to themselves for its certainty, and text-writers had boasted of how little uncertainty there was in this branch of law, but as was pointed out by Lord Eldon, it might perhaps be found, when the matter came to be examined with the proper degree of impartiality, that there was full as much uncertainty on this subject as in any other branch of the law. Lord Eldon's criticism was fully justified. Even at the present time there are few subjects which present to the lawyer so many difficulties as the law of marine insurance, and particularly that branch of the law of marine insurance which relates to the insurance of freight. In this volume I have endeavoured to ascertain and to state the principles of law which govern the insurance of freight. That the conclusions at which I have arrived will in every case be accepted, I do not expect, but I h0pe that by discussing the difficulties which have arisen, and by collecting the authorities which bear upon them, I may lighten the task of those who in the future have to consider this branch of the law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.