 | 1855 - 980 sider
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1855 - 590 sider
...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... | |
 | Charles Davidson - 1864 - 638 sider
...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... | |
 | 1864 - 824 sider
...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... | |
 | 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 - 1868 - 672 sider
...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... | |
 | Franklin Chamberlin - 1869 - 1004 sider
...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... | |
 | Charles Davidson - 1869 - 958 sider
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 558 sider
...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... | |
 | Richard Holmes Coote - 1884 - 868 sider
...(//) 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... | |
 | 1887 - 918 sider
...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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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... 
