An Outline Of The Law Of Insurance With Illustrative Cases

Author : William Reynolds Vance
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330182345
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the Law of Insurance written by William Reynolds Vance and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handbook of the Law of Insurance This work, elaborated from the author's lecture notes as they were experimentally developed through several years spent in teaching the law of insurance in Washington and Lee University, is designed primarily for the student, although it is hoped that it may be found useful to the practitioner as well, and possibly contribute something, however little, toward the needed crystallization of this branch of the law from its present amorphous condition. The principal object of the treatise is to give a consistent statement of logically developed principles that underlie all contracts of insurance - erratic doctrines and eccentric decisions being relegated to the foot-notes so far as fairness would permit. Subsidiary chapters are added, treating of the rules peculiar to the several different kinds of insurance, special attention being given to the construction of the standard fire policy. Since there are more than thirty thousand cases involving questions of insurance to be found in English-printed reports, the citation of cases, upon which much care has been expended, is selective rather than exhaustive. That is, the cases found in the foot-notes are cited for the purpose of supporting, illustrating, or supplementing the statements of the text, and not with any ambition to supplant the digests. For the convenience of both students and teachers, those leading cases which have been selected by the compilers of the various case-books on insurance law as well adapted for illustrative purposes, are printed in capitals. Finally, without invidious mention of names, the author desires to extend in this manner his thanks to the many friends to whose counsel and aid any merit that may be possessed by this book is largely due. 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.