A Practical Treatise On The Law Of Marine Insurance

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance Some knowledge of the law of Marine Insurance is almost indispensable to a shipowner or merchant, and it is important that that knowledge should be correct so far as it goes. It is true that most shipowners and many merchants sooner or later acquire some such knowledge without the trouble of reading books, from their own experience; but this method of acquiring it is apt to be costly, as the most valuable part of the experience is derived from the consequences of their own mistakes. Hence there has always been a demand for little books like the present, and there has generally been a supply. Stevens on Average, Baily on General Average and the Perils of the Seas, and Hopkins's Handbook of Average and Manual of Marine Insurance, are examples of the kind. All these, like the present volume, were written by average-adjusters, - a class of persons whose peculiar experience gives them great opportunities of at least knowing what is wanted. All these books, however, like law-books on a larger scale, must either be constantly kept up to the level of the latest decisions, or they run the risk of ceasing to be safe guides to the mercantile reader, on account of the rapid growth of law and consequent change of practice (a). The time seems to have come for something new. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Parsons, Theophilus. A Treatise on Maritime Law. Including the Law of Shipping; The Law of Marine Insurance; and the Law and Practice of Admiralty. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1859. Two volumes. Reprint available July 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2003052779. ISBN 1-58477-368-5. Cloth. $275. * Reprint of the first edition. Parsons was a member of the Harvard Law School faculty and an authority on maritime law. This impressive treatise was a breakthrough because it was the first to consider the law of shipping, the law of marine insurance and the law and practice of admiralty as interconnected aspects of maritime law. Parsons also includes an extensive list of United States statutes relating to commercial and maritime matters and the rules of practice for United States Courts of Admiralty and Maritime jurisdiction. Taken together, he offers an unparalleled contemporary overview of the subject by one of the most important American legal scholars of the period.