Assured

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

A person who has been insured by some insurance company or underwriter against losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

One who insured against loss or whose life is insured.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A person who has been insured by some insurance company or underwriter, against the losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance. The party whom the underwriters agree to indemnify in case of loss. 1 Phill. Ins. § 2. He is sometimes designated in maritime insurance by description, and not by name, as in a policy "for whom it may concern:" Haynes v. Rowe, 40 Me. 1S1; Cobb v. Ins. Co., 6 Gray (Mass.) 102; Myers v. Ins. Co.. 27 Pa. 268, G7 Am. Dee. 462; Blanchard v. Ins. Co., 33 N. H. 9; Augusta ins. & Banking Co. of Georgia v. Abbott, 12 Md. 348. See Insurance.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A person who has been insured by some insurance company or underwriter, against losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance. Brockway v. Insurance Go. (C. Ct) 29 Fed. 766; Sahfoild v. Insurance Co., l2 Cush. (Mass.) 548. The person for whose benefit the policy is issued and to whom the loss is payable, not necessarily the person on whose llfe or property the policy is written. Thus where a wife insures her husband's life for her own benefit and he,has no interest in the policy, she is the "assured" and he the "insured." Hogle v. Insurance Co., 6 Rob. (N. Y.) 570; Feildon v. Canfield, 104 N. Y. 143, 10 N. E. 146; Insurance Co. v. Luchs, 108 U. S. 498, 2 Sup. Ot. 949, 27 In Ed. 800.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A person who has been inby some insurance company, or under- Tiler, against losses or perils mentioned in ie policy of insurance.