The Law of Life Insurance: With a Chapter on Accident Insurance

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W. Clowes and sons, Limited, 1882 - 355 pages
 

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Page 241 - ... present or future, certain or contingent, ascertained or sounding only in damages, subsisting or supposed to subsist between the company and...
Page 69 - I take the law of this Court to be well settled that in order to render a voluntary settlement valid and effectual, the settlor must have done everything which, according to the nature of the property comprised in the settlement, was necessary to be done in order to transfer the property and render the settlement binding upon himself.
Page 263 - That from and after the passing of this act, no insurance shall be made by any person or persons, bodies politick or corporate, on the life or lives of any person or persons, or on any other event or events whatsoever, wherein the person or persons for whose use, benefit, or on whose account such policy or policies shall be made, shall have no interest, or by way of gaming or wagering; and that every assurance made, contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof, shall be null and void, to all intents...
Page 296 - Calls to the amount of pounds per share have been made, under which the sum of pounds has been received. The liabilities of the company on the first day of January (or July) were, — Debts owing to sundry persons by the company : On judgment, £ On specialty, £ On notes or bills, £ On simple contracts, £ On estimated liabilities, £ The assets of the company on that...
Page 32 - And be it enacted, that all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any Court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Page 295 - ... a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which such default continues...
Page 77 - A policy of insurance effected by any married man on his own life, and expressed upon the face of it to be for the benefit of his wife or of his wife and children, or any of them, shall enure and be deemed a trust for the benefit of his wife for her separate use, and of his children, or any of them according to the interest...
Page 126 - The special facts, upon which the contingent chance is to be computed, lie most commonly in the knowledge of the insured only : the underwriter trusts to his representation, and proceeds upon confidence that he does not keep back any circumstance in his knowledge, to mislead the underwriter into a belief that the circumstance does not exist, and to induce him to estimate the risk as if it did not exist.
Page 295 - Every limited banking company and every insurance company and deposit, provident, or benefit society under this Act shall, before it commences business, and also on the first Monday in February and the first Monday in August in every year during which it carries on business, make a statement in the form marked D.
Page 295 - No sum due to any member of a company in his character of a member by way of dividends profits or otherwise shall...

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