Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law Relating to Insurance, Vol. 1 of 3: In Three Parts, Viz, Marine Insurance, of Insurance on Lives, of Insurance Against Fire Considerable advantage has accrued to the Author from the period at which his Work has been undertaken. For he has been enabled to avail himself of much new and valuable discussion. The various forms assumed by com merce, and the changes which daily take place in the habits and dealings of mankind, have given rise to new laws and fresh topics of legal investigation. At the same time, he has Een enabled, by reason of the law having become set tled, to divest his pages of much elaborate argument, justly considered necessary at an earlier period the introduction of which into a Treatise of this nature, cannot, it is presum ed, be deemed essential, with regard to points which are now laid up among the elements of our jurisprudence, and regarded as too well established to be shaken. In addition also to the alterations thus suggested in the plan of the pre sent Work, it may be proper to observe, that some recent decisions of considerable importance have occurred, which now appear for the first time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.