Fire insurance
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A contract of insurance by which the underwriter, in consideration of the premium, undertakes to indemnify the insured against ali losses in his houses, buildings, furniture, ships in port, or merchandise, by means of accidental fire happening within a prescribed period.
3 Kent, Comm. 370; Mutual In Ins. Co. v. Alien. 138 Mass. 27, 52 Am. Rep. 245; Durham v. Fire & Marine Ins. Co. (C. C.) 22 Fed. 470 .