A Manual of Maritime Law, Consisting of a Treatise on Ships and Freight and a Treatise on Insurance
A Manual of Maritime Law, Consisting of a Treatise on Ships and Freight and a Treatise on Insurance

Author: Francesco Rocco

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1584778318

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Reprint of the first and only English translation of Roccus' treatise on maritime law, which was first published in 1655. "This manual is very highly esteemed by commercial lawyers in all countries, for its compressed, methodical, and accurate learning, and is a book of high authority." Marvin 616. "[Roccus'] works are of more practical use to an English lawyer, than all the other maritime works [with one exception]... Lord Mansfield is under no inconsiderable obligation to them." Joseph Story, Literature of Maritime Law, in The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story. 108-109 (W. Story editor).

Betting on Lives
Betting on Lives

Author: Geoffrey Wilson Clark

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780719056758

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By examining the rise of life insurance institutions in 18th-century England, this book offers fresh insight into the history of a commercial society learning to apply speculative techniques to the management of risk.