 We are of opinion, therefore, first, that as the companies elected to insist upon the condition in these cases, the policies in question must be regarded as extinguished by the non-payment of the premiums, though caused by the existence of the war, and...  The Insurance Law Journal - Page 8721876Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1876 - 816 pages
...from the assured that which had already become substantially his property. It would be contrary to the maxim, that no one should be made rich by making another...action will not lie for the amount insured thereon. Secondly, that such failure being caused by a public war, without the fault of the assured, they are... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 748 pages
...from the assured that which had already become substantially his property. It would be contrary to the maxim, that no one should be made rich by making another...action will not lie for the amount insured thereon. Secondly, that such failure being caused by a public war, without the fault of the assured, they are... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 682 pages
...justice, and cannot be invoked to revive a contract which it would be unjust or inequitable to revive. We are of opinion, therefore, first, that as the companies...action will not lie for the amount insured thereon. Secondly, that such failure being caused by a public war, without the fault of the assured, they are... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 1004 pages
...from the assured that which had already become substantially his property. It would be contrary to the maxim that no one should be made rich by making another poor." The ownership by the policy-holder of the "savings" part of the premiums paid being thus conclusively... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 980 pages
...from the assured that which had already become substantially his property. It would be contrary to the maxim that no one should be made rich by making another poor." The ownership by the policy-holder of the "savings" part of the premiums paid being thus conclusively... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 886 pages
...from the assured that which had already become substantially his property. It would be contrary to the maxim, that no one should be made rich by making another...regarded as extinguished by the nonpayment of the preminms, though caused by the existence of war, and that an action will not lie for the amount insured... | |
 | James Biggs Porter - Accident insurance - 1884 - 588 pages
...Can. Jurist, 203. (c) Pirn v. Reid, 6 M. & G. I, 12 LJCP 299, 6 Scott NR 982. 198 held that the policy must be regarded as extinguished by the non-payment...of the premiums, though caused by the existence of war. But that such failure being caused without the fault of the insured, he was entitled to recover... | |
 | William Albert Keener - Quasi contracts - 1888 - 1234 pages
...from the assured that which had already become substantially his property. It would be contrary to the maxim that no one should be made rich by making another...regarded as extinguished by the non-payment of the preminms, though caused by the existence of the war, and that an action will not lie for the amount... | |
 | Freeman Snow - International law - 1893 - 636 pages
...existence ; in other words, he is fairly entitled to have the equitable value of his policy. * * * " We are of opinion, therefore, first, that as the companies...action will not lie for the amount insured thereon. " Secondly, that such failure being caused by a public war, without the fault of the assured, they... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Insurance law - 1902 - 1220 pages
...from the assured that which had already become substantially his property. It would be contrary to the maxim, that no one should be made rich by making another...in question must be regarded as extinguished by the non-paj-ment of the premiums, though caused by the existence of the war, and that an action will not... | |
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