The History of Insurance Vol 8

Volume 8 MARINE British Parliamentary P apers, Report from the Select Committee on Marine Insurance (1810) Observations on the manner of conducting marine insurances in Great Britain; and on the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, to whom that subject was referred, including a few remarks on joint-stock companies (1810) Joseph Marryat, Observations on the Report of the Committee of Marine Insurance, with a few incidental remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published, entitled *A Letter to Jasper Vaux, Esq./; to which is added copy of a report, proposed as an amendment to the report adopted by the committee on marine insurance (1810) Considerations on the Dangers of Altering the Marine Insurance Laws of Great Britain; in the manner proposed by a bill, brought into Parliament for that purpose; And On the impolicy of granting, without the most accurate Legislative Enquiry, several Applications to Parliament, for sanctioning certain self-erected Joint Stock Companies for Insurance of Lives, Insurance against Eire, and for the Purchase and Sale of Annuities (1811) Index

This set gathers together key writings which chart the formative years of insurance and reviews important stages in the history of the subject from contemporary perspectives