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Actual Cash Value

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The fair and reasonable cash price for which property can be sold in the market. It is synonymous with "fair cash value." 193 111. 474.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The term means the sum of money the insured goods would have brought for cash, at the market price, at the time when, and place where, they were destroyed by fire. Mack v. Ins. Co., 4 Fed. 59. See Insubance.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The fair or reasonable cash price for which the property could be sold in the market, in the ordinary course of business, and not at forced sale; the price it will bring in a fair market after reasonable efforts to find a purchaser who will give the highest price. Birmingham F. Ins. Co. v. Pulver, 126 111. 329, 18 N. E. 804, 9 Am. St. Rep. 598; Mack v. Lancashire Ins. Co. (C. C.) 4 Fed. 59; Morgan's L. & T. R. S. S. Co., v. Board of Reviewers, 41 La. Ann. 1166, 3 South. 507.

Defined under Actual in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In insurance. The stm of money the insured gouds would have brought for cash, at the market price, at the time when and place where they were destroyed by fre. 4 Fed. Rep. 59.