Marine insurance : a legal history / Rob Merkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merkin, Robert M., author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marine insurance--Law and legislation.

Marine insurance.

Marine insurance claims.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1518 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2021]

Summary:

This authoritative work forms a comprehensive examination of the legal and historical context of marine insurance, providing a detailed overview of the events and factors leading to its codification in the Marine Insurance Act 1906. It investigates the development of the legal principles and case law that underpin the Act to reveal how successful this codification truly was, and to demonstrate how these historical precedents remain relevant to marine insurance law to this day.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents for Volume I

Extended Contents

Foreword

Preface: Rationale and Objectives

Table of Cases

Table of Decisions

Table of Legislation

1 THE FRAMEWORK OF THE LAW OF THE SEA

2 MARINE INSURANCE IN 1756

3 WAR, DIPLOMACY AND THE AMERICAS: 1756 TO 1783

4 PERILS ON THE SEAS: 1783 TO 1815

5 ANGLO-AMERICAN TRADE AND RELATIONS: 1783 TO 1815

6 MARINE INSURANCE IN AN ERA OF WAR: 1756 TO 1815 I

7 MARINE INSURANCE IN AN ERA OF WAR: 1756 TO 1815 II

Volume II

Contents for Volume II

8 TRADE AND DIPLOMACY AFTER 1815

9 MARINE INSURANCE IN AN ERA OF PEACE: 1815 TO 1861

10 SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE

11 THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND BRITISH NEUTRALITY

12 THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS

13 THE ALABAMA ARBITRATION

14 MARINE INSURANCE IN AN ERA OF NEUTRALITY: 1861 TO 1875

15 CONSOLIDATING THE EMPIRE

16 MARINE INSURANCE IN AN ERA OF EMPIRE: 1875 TO 1906

17 THE MARINE INSURANCE ACT 1906

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Merkin, Rob Marine Insurance

ISBN:

9781788116756