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Aversio Periculi

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

An averting or turning away of peril. A name given to the contract of insurance (marine) because one of the parties undertakes to avert from the other the peril of the sea. According to Emerigon, the words signify that the insurer charges himself with, and takes upon himself, the peril which the things insured run upon the sea. Tr. des Assur. c. 1, pr. See 3 Kent, Comm. 263; Locc. de Jur. Mar. lib. 2, c. 5, § 1. AVERUM (Lat.) Goods; property; a beast of burden. Spelman.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The averting of peril.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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In old maritime law. An averting or turning away of peril. A name given to the contract of insurance, because one of the parties undertakes to avert the peril of the other on the seas, or takes it upon himself.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A of peril. Used of a contract of Kent, Comm. 263.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

I. A turning away of peril; used of the contract of insurance.