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
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I.
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.