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Reassurance

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Same as Reinsurance.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

When an insurer is deloss for the Insurance he has made: this is called reassurance.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

This is where an insurer procures the whole or a part of the sum which he has insured (i. e., contracted to pay in case of loss, death, etc.) to be insured again to him by another person. Sweet.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

A contract by the first insurer of property with another insurer, by which he has the entire sum he has insured, reassured to him.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

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

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

The insurance of property first insurer to protect himself.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879