Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters Association of the Northwest, Issue 23Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest, 1892 |
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Page 30 - This company shall not be liable for loss caused directly or indirectly by invasion, insurrection, riot, civil war or commotion, or military or usurped power, or by order of any civil authority; or by theft; or by neglect of the insured to use all reasonable means to save and preserve the property at and after a fire or when the property is endangered by fire in neighboring premises...
Page 103 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 28 - ... upon the losse or perishinge of any shippe there followethe not the undoinge of any man, but the losse lightethe rather easilie upon many than heavilie upon fewe...
Page 28 - ... ships and things adventured, or some part thereof, at such rates and in such sort as the parties...
Page 27 - And whereas it hathe bene tyme out of mynde an usage amongste merchantes, both of this realme and of forraine nacyons, when they make any greate adventure (speciallie into remote partes), to give some consideracion of money to other persons (which commonlie are in no small number), to have from them assurance...
Page 27 - ... soe open as at other tymes it hathe bene. "And whereas it hathe bene tyme out of mynde...
Page 80 - ... if the words employed, of themselves, or in connection with other language used in the instrument, or in reference to the subject-matter to which they relate, are susceptible of the interpretation given them by the assured, although in fact intended otherwise by the insurer, the policy will be construed...
Page 84 - The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
Page 110 - I move that the Secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of the Association for the election of the members whose names were proposed by the Council yesterday.
Page 31 - Resolved, That the thanks of this Association are due and are hereby tendered to...