A Treatise on Guaranty Insurance and Compensated Suretyship: Including Therein as Subsidiary Branches the Law of Fidelity, Commercial and Judicial Insurances, Covering All Forms of Compensated Suretyship, Such as Official and Private Fidelity Bonds, Building Bonds, Probate Bonds, Court Bonds, Credit and Title Insurances |
Contents
| xxiii | |
| 2 | |
| 4 | |
| 1 | |
| 20 | |
| 29 | |
| 36 | |
| 43 | |
| 49 | |
| 57 | |
| 63 | |
| 67 | |
| 93 | |
| 99 | |
| 105 | |
| 116 | |
| 118 | |
| 124 | |
| 132 | |
| 139 | |
| 146 | |
| 152 | |
| 164 | |
| 180 | |
| 189 | |
| 195 | |
| 206 | |
| 219 | |
| 225 | |
| 233 | |
| 241 | |
| 249 | |
| 259 | |
| 265 | |
| 275 | |
| 282 | |
| 292 | |
| 301 | |
| 315 | |
| 323 | |
| 336 | |
| 342 | |
| 356 | |
| 364 | |
| 376 | |
| 384 | |
| 391 | |
| 447 | |
| 453 | |
| 460 | |
| 469 | |
| 475 | |
| 485 | |
| 491 | |
| 498 | |
| 505 | |
| 511 | |
| 522 | |
| 535 | |
| 543 | |
| 550 | |
| 556 | |
| 568 | |
| 575 | |
| 586 | |
| 608 | |
| 615 | |
| 621 | |
| 630 | |
| 635 | |
| 641 | |
| 647 | |
| 655 | |
| 662 | |
| 668 | |
| 678 | |
| 688 | |
| 699 | |
| 716 | |
| 722 | |
| 728 | |
| 739 | |
| 745 | |
| 753 | |
| 766 | |
Other editions - View all
A Treatise on Guaranty Insurance and Compensated Suretyship: Including ... Thomas Gold Frost No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
accounts Ætna Indemn agent American Surety Company application Bank Bldg cashier City Tr claim construed contract of insurance contracts of guaranty corporation defalcation default defendant duties effect employee ex rel fact fidelity bond fidelity insurance policy foregoing fraud or dishonesty fraudulent Guaranty Company guaranty insurance held insurable interest insurance bond insurance company insurance contracts insurer's intention issued jury larceny or embezzlement latter liability loss ment Minn N. Y. App N. Y. Misc N. Y. Sup negligence notice obligation Pacific Nat parties person plaintiff policy of fidelity premium principle proposal provisions question reason reference renewal representations risk risk's rule Safe Dep spoke as follows statement statute statute of frauds Supp Supreme Court surety company suretyship sustained therein thereof tion U. S. Fid warranty Wash
Popular passages
Page 33 - ... no action shall be brought upon any agreement that is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof, * * * unless the promise, contract, or agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 33 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 483 - There is no language in the statute nor in the bond which is therein authorized limiting the right of recovery to those who furnish material or labor directly to the contractor, but all persons supplying the contractor with labor or materials in the prosecution of the work provided for in the contract are to be protected. The source of the labor or material is not indicated or circumscribed. It is only required to be 'supplied' to the contractor in the prosecution of the work provided for.
Page 439 - ... all money which may come into his hands by virtue of his said office...
Page 35 - Whenever the main purpose and object of the promisor is not to answer for another, but to subserve some pecuniary or business purpose of his own, involving either a benefit to himself or damage to the other contracting party, his promise is not within the statute, although it may be in form a promise to pay the debt of another, and although the performance of it may incidentally have the effect of extinguishing that liability.
Page 118 - Theft is the fraudulent taking of corporeal personal property belonging to another from his possession, or from the possession of some person holding the same for him, without his consent, with intent to deprive the owner of the value of the same, and to appropriate it to the use or benefit of the person taking.
Page 29 - The rule of strictissimi juris is a stringent one, and is liable at times to work a practical injustice. It is one which ought not to be extended to contracts not within the reason of the rule, particularly when the bond is underwritten by a corporation, which has undertaken for a profit to insure the obligee against a failure of performance on the part of the principal obligor.
Page 236 - It is agreed that the above answers are to be taken as conditions precedent, and as the basis of the said bond applied for, or any renewal or continuation of the same that may be issued by the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland to the undersigned upon the person above named.
Page 329 - That the company shall be notified in writing, at its office in the city of New York, of any act on the part of the employe, which may involve a loss for which the company is responsible hereunder, as soon as practicable after the occurrence of such act shall have come to the knowledge of the employer.
Page 382 - August 14, 1893, provides that, "whenever the comptroller shall become satisfied of the insolvency of a national banking association, he may, after due examination of its affairs, * * * appoint a receiver, who shall proceed to close up such association,