The Law of Insurance: As Applied to Fire, Life, Accident, Guarantee and Other Non-maritime Risks, Volume 2 |
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Page 1145 - No suit or action on this policy, for the recovery of any claim, shall be sustainable in any court of law or equity until after full compliance by the insured with all the foregoing requirements, nor unless commenced within twelve months next after the fire.
Page 873 - Any policy of insurance made by any insurance company on the life of any person, expressed to be for the benefit of a married woman...
Page 735 - ... shall be considered as a net single premium of temporary insurance, and the term for which it will insure shall be determined according to the age of the party at the time of the lapse of premium, and the assumptions of mortality and interest aforesaid.
Page 1254 - In its most commonly accepted _. meaning, the ,word denotes an event " that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or " 'is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected...
Page 759 - The result is that the law of nations, as judicially declared, prohibits all intercourse between citizens of the two belligerents which is inconsistent with the state of war between their countries...
Page 1196 - The rule of law is clear, that when one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 1113 - ... loss. It is equivalent to a declaration that they will not pay, though the proof be furnished, and to require the presentation of proof in such a case, when it can be of no importance to either party, and the conduct of the party in favor of whom the stipulation is made has rendered it practically superfluous, is but an idle formality, the observance of which the law will not require.
Page 950 - ... that where the effects produced are the immediate results of the action of a burning substance in contact with a building, it is immaterial whether these results manifest themselves in the form of combustion, or of explosion, or of both combined. In either case, the damage occurring is by the action of fire, and covered by the ordinary terms of a policy against loss by fire.
Page 969 - In all insurance against loss by fire hereafter made by companies chartered or doing business in this commonwealth, the conditions of insurance shall be stated in the body of the policy, and neither the application of the insured nor the by-laws of the company shall be considered as a warranty or a part of the contract, except so far as they are incorporated in full into the policy and appear on its face before the signatures of its officers.
Page 807 - ... if the assured shall have, or shall hereafter make any other insurance on the property hereby insured...