Excerpt from Compendium of the Law of Insurance: Comprising Marine Fire and Life Insurance But when we remember the great commerce of Tyre, Carthage, of Asia Minor, of Rhodes and Alex andria, it seems improbable that Greece and Rome were unacquainted with the system of Insurance. It seems first to have been introduced into Eng land by the Lombards, about the thirteenth century. The Lombards were a people distinguished for their commercial enterprise, and for the extent of their foreign connections, which they established wherever they could obtain a footing, and circumstances offered opportunity of success to their trade. 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.