History of Insurance Vol 8

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. 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