A Treatise on Marine, Fire, Life, Accident and All Other Insurances: Including Mutual Benefit Societies, Covering Also General Average, And, So Far as Applicable, Rights, Remedies, Pleading Practice, and Evidence, Հատոր 1

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Bancroft-Whitney Company., 1897
 

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Erection of adjacent buildings to which insured was not a party
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1106 No notice or formal declaration of forfeiture necessary 1107 Premium payable on demand 1108 Forfeiture for nonpayment of installments of ...
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1226 Liability after termination of contract or surrender of policy
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CONDITIONS AFFECTING LOSS
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INSURABLE INTEREST CHAPTER XXVII
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SUBJECT OF INSURANCE
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PRELIMINARY CHAPTER
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Representation may be of facts in no way material to risk
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Revisiting port
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To whom dues and assessments payable
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Intemperance Waiver of provision
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Running factory nights
8
Renewals of fire policies
9
Freight earned
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Newspaper company cannot carry on accident insurance
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Unloading and reloading goods to make vessel seaworthy
21
Interest of donor or contributor
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1833
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When power to assess may be delegatedExceptions to rule
25
Death from disease as a secondary cause not death by
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Parol contractsStatutory or charter provisions
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Parol contractsStatutory or charter provisionscontinued
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CHAPTER I
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policy
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Marine risks
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Sanitary inspection of buildings etc is not insurance
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Carrying letter of marque no deviation of itself
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1202 Payment by note
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Statutory provision Certificates
50
Passage money
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TITLE III
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CHAPTER II
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VOID AND ILLEGAL INSURANCES
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Insurable interest at common law 892 No insurable interest under unenforceable contract 893 The interest must be neither illegal nor immoral 894 ...
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Lease of insured property
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Marine risk
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Life insurance is not a contract of indemnity
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Accident insurance is not a contract of indemnity in all cases
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Reinsurance is a contract of indemnity 29 Other incidents of the doctrine of indemnity
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CHAPTER III
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Permission to obtain other insurance
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1159 Amount of premium for which mortgagor is chargeable
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Parol contractsMutual benefit societies
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When endowment insurance by beneficiary association ultra
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Wharfingers
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Qualified interest 897 Conditional or contingent interest Expectancy Inchoate rights
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1161 Right of mortgagee to recover premiums paid after decree
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Where assured has no such interest as statute requires
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Damage to other vessel
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CHAPTER IV
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Effect of memorandumBinding slip in dorsement etc 66 Completion of contract marine and fire Binding slip SUBDIV III Completion of Contract Pr...
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Consignor
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Statements founded on information from agent
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Specific designation of port
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Fire risk Keeping books etc
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61 Oral agreement of agent may be controlled by application
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Negotiations through mail
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CHAPTER LIII
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Where repairing inury will race vessel though unsound
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Risk does not terminate where goods transshipped from
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Computation of time 1111 Acceptance of entire annual premium in advance 1112 Prepayment of premiums
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Attachment of risk at and from home port
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Member mutual benefit society
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Recovery and disposal of property by under
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New policy may be only a renewal
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Time policy
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Description of parties
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CHAPTER V
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To enforce contribution policies must cover same interest
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Vendor or one who has contracted to convey 983 Vendor
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Port of necessity
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Materiality of alteration
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Distinctions to be observed
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Whatever affects the state and condition of the ship at
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The amount Inequality 1306 Examination and allowance of claims 1307 What may be included
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Railroad companies 899 Pecuniary interest Consanguinity or affinity 900 Whether insurable interest need be stated 901 As to the time when the int...
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2986 Acceptance under circumstances of doubt as to right
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Vendee
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CHAPTER VI
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Wager policies valid at common law now void
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Character or kind of vessel Rating
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Devisees
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Location
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Evidences and securities of property
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What articles contraband of
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What is other or double insurance
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Right to apply policy in case of different ship
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Partial interest remaining 905 The interest need not be indefeasible 906 Obligation of insurer to ascertain insurable interest in prop erty
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CHAPTER LV
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Successive passages Freight valued
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Agreement to renew not within statute of frauds
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The form of the policy
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Conveyance by deed of property as collateral
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The policyWhat it usually contains 178 Execution of the policy
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When action is deemed to be commenced
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Principles governing right to return of premium where risk
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Affixing date 180 Execution of the policy Affixing seal 181 Requisites of a valid policy
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CHAPTER VII
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Life risk 994 Owner Absolute interest 995 Owner of land Buildings constructing under contract 996 Contractors Builders MaterialmenMechanics 9...
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Attachment and duration of risk where voyage insured
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Ships general agent no insurable interest in advances 999 Voluntary advances on vessel 1000 One expending money for his own benefit on anothers ...
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Payment premium 1117 Payment overdue premium after loss death or sickness 1118 Death or loss within time extended for payment or days of grace
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Assessments Premium notes 1312 Statute of limitations Assessments
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Risk on freight will only attach from loading of the vessel
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Sale or transfer title
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Acquiring and holding title under distinct right not an
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CHAPTER VIII
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Division of warranties
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CHAPTER IX
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Freight valued in excess of value of carriage of goods
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Intelligence reports or rumors of loss
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Fraud Credi
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Usage must be well established and notorious 242 Usage may be of recent origin
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Usage must be reasonable
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Delay in port should
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Usage must be uniform
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Parties may by express contract include or waive usage 246 Usage admissible where contract ambiguous or obscure
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Limitation of the rule
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Cases and authorities 249 Whether usage controls the plain legal import of words of policy
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Opinions and cases
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1119 Review of cases generally relied on as holding such payment of no effect
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Conclusion
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What excuses nonpayment premiums and assessmentsGen
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Usage cannot legalize an illegal
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253 Particular usage may control general usage 254 Usage controls implied limitations
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255 Usage of another similar trade or place or of another com pany
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Liberal construction 257 What is sufficient evidence of usage
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Cases
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Until she shall arrive in safety in any port or harbor of
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Tender to agent 1123 Frequency of tender 1124 Tender after delivery up of policy fraudulently induced by agent
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Cases
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CHAPTER X
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Departure from course or delay to seek protection of con
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CHAPTER XI
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WaiverHolding overdue premium notes and demanding
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Repaired value and not valuation in policy
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Merely taking possession of vessel and deficiency in repairs
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Suicide for benefit of assureds estate or third person
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Representation must be substantially true
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Continuance of blockade
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Abandonment validly made continuing though acceptance
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Insurrection Riot Civil
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TITLE IV
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CHAPTER XII
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Cestui que trust
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Who are insurance agents
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Classification of agents
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Appointment of agents
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Statutes
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CHAPTER XIII
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Assignee or trustee of insolvent
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Exception of loss from existing regulations does not include
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Death by his own hand
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CHAPTER XIV
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Effect upon charter party
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1205 Validity of such provisions
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Concealment suppression or spo
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Demand and notice etc
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CHAPTER XV
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Cases
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Restrictions in policy as to manner of exercising authority by agent
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CHAPTER XVI
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Assignment of life policy as collateral
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Whether premium returnable where foreign company has
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Percentage clause qualified by agreement as to salvage
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CHAPTER XVII
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Stipulation contrary to statute requiring notice 1325 Constitutionality of statute requiring notice 1326 To what class of policies New York statute ap...
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Policy void for fraud of assured
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Acts of insane person Fire risks 2843 Negligence Habitual carelessness of servants 2844 Negligence partly ascribable to insurer 2845 Negligence A...
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When policy stipulates for due care 2847 Negligence Fidelity guarantee 2848 May gross negligence evince fraudulent design 2849 Shipowners pr...
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Warranted free from confiscation in ships port or ports
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Explosion defined
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1127 Tender after payment overdue premiums unconditionally re quested
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Custom not to treat nonpayment premium notes as for
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Loss by theft excepted
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WaterTanks filled etc Fire riskContinuing
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Irresponsive
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Risk may be terminated by substituting another port of
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8210 Effect of waiver of proof where policy provides that no suit
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Temporary violation of condition
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Waiver of prepayment
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Revisiting or returning to a port
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Summary of decisions
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Substitution new party plaintiff or defendant after expira
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Whether inferior officers must be competent to fill masters
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CHAPTER LL
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Chattel mortgage under alienation clause
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Deviation to supply or repair defect in fitting for original
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Agent must have assumed to act for claimed principal
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Other insurance 465 Power to bind company by contracts other than those of in surance
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Parties referred
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CHAPTER XIX
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Application 498 Where agent writes down such answers as he deems material Application 499 Where agent dictates or advises the answers Applicati...
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TITLE XI
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Statements that are part of contract may sometimes be rep
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1028 Mortgagor of personal property
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Reinsurer
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Its materiality not sub
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Joint owners
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Marine
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Is there a tendency to relax the above rule?
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2807 Profits of lessee
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Construction of representation
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Authorities holding the contrary doctrine
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Storing of prohibited articles
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Company cannot cancel when loss is imminent
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Rules as to representations apply to modification of con
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CHAPTER XLII
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CHAPTER XX
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AlienationAssignment Waiver 561 Alienation Assignment When company not bound by agents acts 562 Agent Keeping prohibited articlesWaiver ...
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CHAPTER XXXVIII
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Double abandonment
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Attachment risk
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Public policy
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General policy War risks
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1207 Payment by negotiable paperCases holding no demand
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Notice
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Manner of procuring assent to assignment of policy
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Creditors as assignees
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CHAPTER XXI
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Conclusion 1335 Personal noticeWhether notice must be actually received 1336 Service by mail 1337 Notice wrongly addressed 1338 Notice by p...
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When member may not designate beneficiary by willEffect of designation by will
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Right of insured under regular life policy to dispose of зame by will
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Order of Knights of Pythias
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Analogous to testamentary disposition
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Where no beneficiary designatedLapse to society
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When insured in regular life policy may change beneficiary
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Whether interest of beneficiary vested
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Beneficiary may acquire vested interest under contract with member
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No vested right though beneficiary has possession of certifi cate
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Provision as to designation or change of beneficiary in char ter bylaws etc must be complied with if possible
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When mode prescribed by charter differs from general rule of
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Exceptions to rule that bylaws etc must be followed
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Mere regulation or matter of practice not binding as to change of beneficiary
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CHAPTER XXII
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False advices Loss by another peril 650 Degree of diligence required to communicate information Agent
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Where provision as to mode of change of beneficiary cannot be complied withLoss of certificate
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Where member dies before change of beneficiary complete
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Where designation of beneficiary is invalid
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Effect of invalid or inoperative change of beneficiary
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Society only can set up noncompliance with bylaw
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Statutes relative to designation of beneficiary
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Statutes relative to change of beneficiary
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Termination of risk on freight at port or ports of discharge
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Confederate money 1140 Payment in foreign money equivalent to United States money may be shown
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Designation of shipowners interest
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Absent brother as beneficiary
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Affianced wife or betrothed as beneficiary
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As he may direct
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Where no children survive
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does not generally include grandchildren
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does not include children of wife by former mar riage
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Where children are born subsequent to issuance of certificate or policy
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when includes adopted childRelease of rights
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His childrenIncludes child by former wife Who included generally
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Their children
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Dependents
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Devisees or in case of their prior death to legal heirs or devisees of certificate holder
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EstateMy estate
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Executor
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Executors and administrators
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Family as beneficiary
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Families widows orphans or other dependents
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Friends
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Guardian
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HeirsLawful heirsLegal heirsHeirs at law
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Heirs or assigns
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Husband as heir
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And legal representativesHeirs or representatives
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Himself executors etc 788 Infant as beneficiary
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Natural heir
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Orphans
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Partnership as beneficiary
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Related to
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Legal representatives
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Resident brother as beneficiary
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Son as beneficiary
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Survivor
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In trust
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Proceeds paid to administratorEx tent of his liability
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Proceeds paid to administrator of in sured a trust for widow and children
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Afterward in order named
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Widow orphans or heirs
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Widow orphans and heirs or devisees
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Widow or relativesFuneral benefit
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CHAPTER XXIII
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Construction of contract by parties and beneficiaries
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Wife and daughtersSurvivorWho entitled to fund
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Wife if living and if not living to children
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Wife or any wife that may survive and minor children
808
Wife or widow as beneficiary
809
When wife entitled against husband to proceeds of surrender policy
810
Delivery of policy as security
811
When wife has only equitable lien
812
Wifes rights where husbands misrepresentations induce her to join assignment
813
Effect of payment to woman designated as wife of member when lawful wife living
814
No marriage ceremony performed
815
Wife or widow as beneficiary where insured has married when lawful wife living
816
Regular life policy Effect of divorce
817
Mutual benefit certificate Effect of divorce
818
Articles of separation
819
What articles are within the clause
824
Subsequent marriage of insured
825
Widow and surviving childrenSecond marriage
826
Where beneficiary under mutual benefit certificate dies before
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assured 828 Where beneficiary under life policy dies before assured
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Life policyConclu sion
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Subsequent marraige of member Effect where wife designated as beneficiary
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Where death of beneficiary occurs after that of insured be fore payment of fund
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common disaster
832
Where beneficiary kills insured
833
Killing assured by insane beneficiary
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Where killing is involuntary
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Killing by sane assignee
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Assignment by beneficiary
837
Ratification by beneficiary of assignment
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Assignment to creditor
839
Endowment policy Wife as beneficiary
840
Assignment by beneficiary of life policy to one having no insurable interest
841
Lien of assignee on paidup policy
842
Where wife joins in assignment of policy on husbands life
843
CHAPTER XXIV
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Assignment by wife of policy on husbands life
845
Benefit certificate
846
Effect of provision in certificate permitting assignment
847
Beneficiary charged with notice of contents of policy
848
Possession by beneficiary of mutual benefit certificate
849
Beneficiary may be trustee of fund though not so designated
850
Where policy provides payment to insured if he lives to a certain dateIf not to beneficiary designated
851
Maturity of policy when beneficiary reaches certain age Debt of association
852
Policy cannot be surrendered without consent of beneficiary in life policy
853
Surrender of policy avoided for mental incapacity
854
Their consent to surren der of policy by insured not binding upon them
855
Death of wifeHer executor no power to surrender policy
856
Wife deceased at time of issuance of paidup policy
857
Regular life policy
858
Benefit societies
859
Rights of creditors of wife when beneficiary
860
Creditor as payee in policy on debtors life
861
Society not bound by secret agreement by member with chil dren as beneficiaries
862
When bequest by wife will not pass interest in policy on hus bands life
863
Where beneficiary not bound by action of companys officers
864
Recovery back of loss paid by companys agent
865
Funeral benefit who entitled
866
Benefits payable in case of sickness or disability Insanity of member
867
Provision for release of company For damages when beneficiary does not recover
868
Beneficiary not liable for premiums paid by stranger
869
Payment assessments by beneficiary gratuitous
870
Amount of policy and premiums may be advancement to ben eficiary
871
Action on local agents bond
872
Beneficiary entitled to fundFund cannot be garnished
873
Two or more beneficiariesJoint tenancy
874
Beneficiary may sue on policy
875
Where money due beneficiary has been paid administrator
876
assured 877 Right of beneficiary premiums paid with misappropriated money or funds
877
Statutory provisions limiting beneficiary of benefit certificate to certain classes
878
Agents defenses
879
Where amount exempted unreasonableUnconstitutionality of
880
Insurance of husbands life Sole benefit of wife Mutual benefit society Vested interest in wife
881

Common terms and phrases

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Էջ 547 - ... no officer, agent, or other representative of this company shall have power to waive any provision or condition of this policy except such as by the terms of this policy may be the subject of agreement indorsed hereon or added hereto, and as to such provisions and conditions no officer, agent, or representative shall have such power or be deemed or held to have waived such provisions or conditions unless such waiver, if any, shall be written upon or attached hereto, nor shall any privilege or...
Էջ 17 - interest or no interest," or "without further proof of interest than the policy itself," or "without benefit of salvage to the insurer...
Էջ 402 - The business of insurance is not commerce. The contract of insurance is not an instrumentality of commerce. The making of such a contract is a mere incident of commercial intercourse, and in this respect there is no difference whatever between insurance against fire and insurance against
Էջ 369 - States, then and in such case it may and shall be lawful for the President, by proclamation, to declare that the inhabitants of such State, or any section or part thereof, where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against the United States ; and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease and be unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue...
Էջ 367 - Whereas the laws of the United States have been, for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Էջ 16 - ... to the judge of the admiralty, the recorder of London, two doctors of the civil law, two common lawyers...
Էջ 512 - The powers of the agent are, prima facie, coextensive with the business intrusted to his care, and will not be narrowed by limitations not communicated to the person with whom he deals. An insurance company, establishing a local agency, must be held responsible to the parties with whom they transact business for the acts and declarations of the agent, within the scope of his employment, as if they proceeded from the principal.
Էջ 758 - A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for sale by a merchant residing abroad, or at a distance from the place of sale, and he usually sells in his own name, without disclosing that of his principal. The latter, therefore, with full knowledge of these circumstances, trusts him with the actual possession of the goods, and gives him authority to sell in his own name.
Էջ 261 - Wis. 1878, § 1943, provides that "wherever any policy of insurance shall be written to insure any real property, and the property insured shall be wholly destroyed without criminal fault on the part of the insured or his assigns, the amount of the insurance written in such policy shall be taken conclusively to be the true value of the property when insured, and the true amount of loss and measure of . damages when destroyed.
Էջ 640 - Iowa, 1880, ch. 211, p. 209), it is provided that "any person who shall hereafter solicit insurance, or procure applications therefor, shall be held to be the soliciting agent of the insurance company or association issuing a policy on such application, or on a renewal thereof, anything in the application or policy to the contrary notwithstanding.

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