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On the Settlement of Losses by Fire under Average Policies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
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It is a point well worthy of observation, that while England has been for centuries past so eminently practical in every branch of commercial enterprise, there have been but few attempts made until lately, to examine freely the well-worn rules of insurance business with a view to alteration. There has prevailed a general, and not altogether unwise, determination to let well alone, and quietly continue the system, however faulty, which experience had shown could lead to an ultimate and satisfactory profit.
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page 151 note * “If at the time of a fire the value of the objects covered by the policy is found to exceed the sum total of the insurance, the assured is considered as having remained his own insurer for that excess, and he is to bear in that character his proportion of the loss.”
page 151 note † “If in case of a fire the insured objects should exceed the sum insured, and they should be partly saved, the assured will be considered as self-insurer for the excess, and is to bear his share of the loss pro ratâ”