Assurance

In Conveyancing. Any instrument which confirms the title to an estate. Legal evidence of the transfer of property.

2 Bl. Comm. 294.

The term "assurances" includes, in an enlarged sense, all instruments which dispose of property, whether they be the grants of private persons, or not; such are fines and recoveries, and private acts of the legislature. Eunom. Dial. 2, § 5. sense of the modern term "insurance," and still retained in policies, but otherwise obsolete.

Molloy de Jur. Mar. 287.

Latterly, however, its use has been revived in its application to contracts of indemnity against life contingencies, which are now frequently termed "assurances upon lives," by way of distinction from indemnity against losses by fire or at sea, etc., to which the term "insurance" is particularly appropriated.

3 Kent, Comm. 365.

The, word "assured" has always been retained in its ancient sense. See "Assure." "Assurance" is the term used in French law. Ord. Mar. liv.

3, tit. 6; Emerig.

Tr. des Assur. ASSURE (Pr. assurer; law Lat. assecura/re, assur are). To make sure, or secure; to confirm or establish; to insure. The party in whose favor a contract or policy of insurance has been executed is still called the "assured;" the other party being termed the "insurer."

2 Steph. Comm. 172.

To convey. "If one be obliged to assure twenty acres of land," etc.

Cro. Eliz. 665.

See "Assurance."

See Assurance.