Assurance

In Conveyancing. Any instrument which confirms the title to an estate. Legal evidence of the transfer of property. 2 Bl. Comm. 294. The term "assurances" includes, in an enlarged sense, all instruments which dispose of property, whether they be the grants of private persons, or not; such are fines and recoveries, and private acts of the legislature. Eunom. Dial. 2, § 5. sense of the modern term "insurance," and still retained in policies, but otherwise obsolete. Molloy de Jur. Mar. 287. Latterly, however, its use has been revived in its application to contracts of indemnity against life contingencies, which are now frequently termed "assurances upon lives," by way of distinction from indemnity against losses by fire or at sea, etc., to which the term "insurance" is particularly appropriated. 3 Kent, Comm. 365. The, word "assured" has always been retained in its ancient sense. See "Assure." "Assurance" is the term used in French law. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 6; Emerig. Tr. des Assur. ASSURE (Pr. assurer; law Lat. assecura/re, assur are). To make sure, or secure; to confirm or establish; to insure. The party in whose favor a contract or policy of insurance has been executed is still called the "assured;" the other party being termed the "insurer." 2 Steph. Comm. 172. To convey. "If one be obliged to assure twenty acres of land," etc. Cro. Eliz. 665. See "Assurance."

Any instrument which confirms the title to an estate. Legal evidence of the trausfer of property. 2 Bla. 294; [1896] 1 Ch. 4G8. The term assurances includes, In an enlarged sense, all Instruments which dispose of property, whether they be the grants of private persons, or not; such are fines and recoveries, and private acts of the legislature. Eunom. Dial. 2, s. 5. In Commercial Law. Insurance.

assurantia, I. I. An instrument ment used as evidence of title to land. hence its application to contracts of ance; Common assurance; Future

Inconveyancing. A “i or instrument of conveyance. ‘The le- @ evidences of the transfer of property are England called the “coramon assurances” [the kingdom, whereby every man's estate Sassuved to him, and all controversies, ibis, and difficulties are either prevented Fremoved. 2 Li. Comm, 294, Tn eontraets, A making secure; insur-. te. ‘The term was formerly of very treent use in the modern sense of insurance, wticulariy in English maritime law, and il appears in the policies of some eompabut is otherwise seldom seen of late ws. There seems to be a Lendency, howyer, to use assitrance for the contracts of einsurance companies, and insurance for sks Upon property,

Assurantia, I. An instrument used as evidence of the title to land. Common assurances: a man's title-deeds. Also, Insurance, q. v. The word has lately been applied to life insurance to distinguish it haoifire and marine.

[L. Lat. assurantia.] In conveyancing. A deed or instrument of conveyance. The Jegal evidences of the transfer of property are in England called the common assurances of the kingdom, whereby every man's estate is assured to him, and all controversies, doubts and difficulties are either prevented, or removed. 2 BL Com. 294. See Common assurance. The word has now become obsolete, and occurs only in the formal parts of conveyances.

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