Assurance
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
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,