Insurance in Elizabethan England : the London Code / Guido Rossi.
2016
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Title
Insurance in Elizabethan England : the London Code / Guido Rossi.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Call Number
KD1859 .R67 2016
ISBN
9781107112285 (hardback)
1107112281 (hardback)
1107112281 (hardback)
Description
xv, 883 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)909538507
Note
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Cambridge University, 2013) issued under title: The development of insurance in the XVI century : the London Book of Orders.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
xi
List of abbreviations
xii
1.
Introduction
1
1.1.
Methodological choices
2
1.1.1.
Theory and practice
4
1.1.2.
Learned courts
6
1.1.3.
Early insurance and modern scholars
9
1.2.
Structure of the work
15
1.3.
Comparative background
16
pt. I
Legal-historical background
25
2.
Some remarks on the origins of English insurance
27
2.1.
evolution of the London policy
27
2.2.
origins of the Italian influence on English insurance
30
2.2.1.
Lombard Street and Tuscan merchants
31
2.2.2.
Florence and Genoa
34
2.2.3.
English early insurance and the Genoese
41
2.2.4.
From Genoa to Florence?
47
3.
Insurance in late sixteenth-century England
53
3.1.
Introduction
53
3.2.
Customary developments and jurisdictional conflicts
61
3.3.
Assurance Chamber
75
3.4.
Register Office
88
pt. II
London Code
135
4.
Preamble: sea-carriage and averages
137
5.
making of the London Code
141
5.1.
Dating the manuscripts
141
5.2.
Custom transmission: from Bruges to London
148
5.2.1.
From the Bruges Ordinances to Additional 48023
148
5.2.2.
From Additional 48023 to Additional 48020
158
5.2.3.
From Additional 48020 to Harleian 5103
161
6.
Object of insurance
164
6.1.
Cargo insurance
164
6.1.1.
Special categories of merchandise
164
6.1.2.
Compulsory underinsurance
170
6.1.3.
Valuation of the goods
173
6.2.
Hull insurance
178
6.3.
Credit insurance
185
7.
Premium
192
7.1.
Payment of the premium
192
7.2.
Return of the premium
197
7.2.1.
Overinsurance
200
7.2.2.
Risk run only in part
204
7.2.3.
Absence of risk
219
7.3.
Procedure to demand the return of the premium
224
8.
parties
229
8.1.
insured
229
8.1.1.
Interesse assecurari
229
8.1.2.
Insurance for a third party
232
8.1.3.
Good faith principle
244
8.2.
insurer
246
8.2.1.
Several liability of the insurers
246
8.2.2.
Sureties before leaving England
249
8.2.3.
Incompatibilities with the quality of insurer
250
8.2.4.
Prohibition of underwriting for the insurer
252
8.3.
broker
253
9.
Risks
258
9.1.
Perils covered by the policy
258
9.2.
Arrest, restraint or detention by princes (factum principis)
262
9.2.1.
General provisions
263
9.2.2.
Arrest, restraint or detention of the ship
264
9.2.3.
Arrest, restraint or detention of the cargo
267
9.2.4.
Forced sale of the cargo
271
9.3.
Barratry
274
10.
Ship and voyage
282
10.1.
Ship, shipmaster and voyage
282
10.1.1.
Ship, shipmaster and journey to be recited in the policy
282
10.1.2.
Substitution of the shipmaster
290
10.2.
Ship and journey
295
10.2.1.
Supervening unseaworthiness of the ship
295
10.2.2.
Change of voyage and change of route
299
10.2.3.
Lighters
304
10.3.
Powers of the insured in the case of mishap
307
10.3.1.
Preservation of the insured cargo
307
10.3.2.
Sale of the insured cargo
314
10.3.3.
Ransom or composition of the insured cargo
315
10.4.
Duration of the risk
317
10.5.
Presumption of loss
320
11.
Recovery
334
11.1.
Requirement of registration
334
11.2.
Liability of shipmaster and insurer
339
11.3.
Jurisdiction and powers of the Assurance Chamber
344
11.4.
Evidence for averages
347
11.5.
Other provisions on averages
358
11.6.
Procedure to demand recovery
358
11.7.
Terms to demand the average
367
11.8.
Appeal against the Commissioners
369
12.
Abandonment to the insurers
372
12.1.
Effects of abandonment
374
12.2.
Powers of the insured after the abandonment
377
12.3.
Terms and procedure for the insured to abandon
381
12.4.
Partial abandonment
385
12.5.
Wrongful abandonment
385
12.6.
Limitations on abandonment
386
12.7.
Request to abandon from the insurers
390
12.8.
Abandonment of the ship
393
12.9.
Abandonment for presumptive loss
394
13.
Reinsurance
397
13.1.
Proper reinsurance
397
13.2.
Insurance de solvendo
406
14.
Life insurance
411
14.1.
Insurance on credit, rent or annuity
411
14.1.1.
General provisions
411
14.1.2.
Evidence for recovery
415
14.2.
Life insurance stipulated for a long journey
417
14.3.
Premium and underinsurance
420
14.4.
Comparison between the London Code and the Bruges Ordinances
422
14.5.
Other forms of life insurance
425
14.5.1.
Ransom insurance
425
14.5.2.
Non-marine slave insurance
428
Concluding remarks
430
Bibliographical references
437
Appendix I
London Code
473
Appendix II
Bruges Ordinances and Additional 48023
665
Appendix III
From the Bruges Ordinances to Harleian 5103
714
Appendix IV
Insurance policies
721
Appendix V
Insurance-related documents 851 Index
867