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" Lord Mansfield was speaking of a policy against marine risks, which is in its terms a contract for indemnity only. But that is not of the nature of what is termed an assurance for life; it really is what it is on the face of it, — a contract to pay... "
The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence - Page 155
1855
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The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the ...

Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 980 pages
...its terms a contract for indemnity only. But that is not the nature of what is termed on assurance for life ; it really is what it is on the face of...the life is not prohibited by the statute 14 Geo. 3. c. 48. But though we are quite satisfied that the case of Godsall v. Boldero was founded on a mistaken...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of ..., Volume 15

Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 590 pages
...its terms a contract for indemnity only. But that is not of the nature of what is termed an assurance for life: it really is what it is on the face of it,—...person having an *interest in the duration of the life, it is not prohibited by the statute 14 G. 3, c. 48. [*392 But, though we are quite satisfied that the...
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Precedents and Forms in Conveyancing, Volume 2, Part 1

Charles Davidson - Conveyancing - 1864 - 638 pages
...insurances prohibited by statute. Insurable interest — what it IR. (a) A policy of life assurance is a contract to pay a certain sum in the event of death : it is not, as a policy of marine or fire insurance is, a contract of indemnity: Dalby v. India, $c., Assurance...
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The American Law Register, Volume 3; Volume 12

Electronic journals - 1864 - 824 pages
...life policy was not in its nature a contract of indemnity, but was what it purports to be on its face, a contract to pay a certain sum in the event of death ; and if made by a person having an interest in the duration of the life, it was sufficient to make...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of ..., Volume 27

New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...life policy was not in its nature a contract of indemnity, but was what it purports to be on its face, a contract to pay a certain sum in the event of death : and if made by a person having an interest in the duration of the life, it •was sufficient to make...
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American Commercial Law: Relating to Every Kind of Business: with Full ...

Franklin Chamberlin - Commercial law - 1869 - 1004 pages
...what it purports to be on its face, a contract to pay a certain sura in the event of death ; and if made by a person having an interest in the duration of the life, it was sufficient, to make it valid in point of law, that that interest existed at the time of making...
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Precedents and Forms in Conveyancing, Volume 2, Part 2

Charles Davidson - Conveyancing - 1869 - 958 pages
...Company (s), in which it was laid down that life assurance is not a contract of indemnity, but simply a contract to pay a certain sum in the event of death ; and the case of Godsall v. Boldero was expressly overruled. Where the insurance is effected in the...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 15

Law - 1877 - 558 pages
...assurance for life ; it really is what it is ou the face of it — a contract to pay a certaiu sum iu the event of death. It is valid at common law ; and, if it is made by a person having au interest iu the duration of the life, it is not prohibited by the statute." As thus interpreted...
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A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage, Volume 1

Richard Holmes Coote - Mortgages - 1884 - 868 pages
...(//) is overruled (a), on the ground that life assurance is not a contract of indemnity, but simply a contract to pay a certain sum in the event of death. When payment had been made covering the whole amount of the plaintiff's insurable interest in the life...
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The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 84

Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 918 pages
...policy was not, in its nature, a contract of indemnity, but was what it purports to be on its face, a contract to pay a certain sum in the event of death; and if made by a person having an interest in the duration of the life, it was sufficient to make it...
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