Insurance in Elizabethan England : The London Code / / Guido Rossi [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Rossi Guido (Law teacher)
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 883 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 346.42/08609031
• Soggetto topico: Insurance law - England - History - 16th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2017).
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Insurance in Elizabethan England
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910159013703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in English legal history.