Insurance in Elizabethan England : The London Code / Guido Rossi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossi, Guido (Law teacher), author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in English legal history.

Cambridge studies in English legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurance law--England--History--16th century.

Insurance law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 883 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

English insurance came into being almost entirely during the Elizabethan period. However, the Great Fire of 1666 consumed most of London's mercantile document, and therefore little is known about early English insurance. Using new archival material, this study provides the first in-depth analysis of early English insurance. It focuses on a crucial yet little-known text, the London Insurance Code of the early 1580s, and shows how London insurance customs were first imported from Italy, then influenced by the Dutch, and finally shaped in a systematic fashion in that Insurance Code. The London Insurance Code was in turn heavily influenced by coeval continental codes. This deep influence attests the strong links between English and European insurance, and questions the common/civil law divide on the history of commercial law.

Contents:

Introduction

Some remarks on the origins of English insurance

Insurance in the late sixteenth century england

Preamble: sea-carriage and averages

The making of the London code

Object of insurance

Premium

The parties

Risks

Ship and voyage

Recovery

Abandonment to the insurers

Reinsurance

Life insurance

Concluding remarks.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2017).

ISBN:

1-316-42372-7

1-316-42649-1

1-316-42688-2

1-107-53149-7

1-316-28267-8

1-316-42727-7

1-316-42766-8

1-316-42922-9